“Hirsh’s gift
for compression and clarity provides us with a fine
itinerary of the New Left in France. He reconstructs
and makes more accessible the ideas of Sartre, Henri
Lefebvre, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Andre Gorz-
including the tensions among them… And he
dissects the relations between the work of these
theorists and the great events of 1968 in
France.”--Paul Breines, Boston College
“In this truly
admirable book, Arthur Hirsh does the near
impossible: he presents opposing ideas with clarity
and without bias… The French
Left, one of the very best works
I have seen for some times, will not soon be
surpassed.”--Herb Gintis, University of
Massacusetts
“Hirsh’s work
is of the greatest interest.”--Canadian Journal
of Political Science
Preface
Part I: Intellectual
Origins of the French New Left
Introduction
Chapter 1: The
Leftist Critique of Marxism In Postwar France
Chapter 2: Jean-Paul
Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir: The Existentialist
Challenge
Chapter 3:
Sartre’s Critique of Marxism
Chapter 4: Lefebvre
and French Revisionism: Marxists Question Marxism
Chapter 5:
Castoriadis and Socialisme ou
Barbarie: The Gauchiste
Rejection of Marxism
Part II: May 1968
Chapter 6: From
Origins to Culmination
Part III: Beyond May 1968:
The Legacy of the French New Left
Chapter 7: Althusser
and the Resurgence of
Structuralist-Marxism
Chapter 8:
Eurocommunism and the Crisis of Marxism
Chapter 9: The New
Social Movements of the 1970s
Epilogue: Marxism and
Autonomous Society
Bibliography
Index
