The Wind from the East

Richard Wolin is Distinguished Professor of History, Comparative Literature, and Political Science at the City University of New York Graduate Center. His books, which include Heidegger's Children and The Seduction of Unreason (both Princeton), have been translated into ten languages. His articles and reviews have appeared in Dissent, the Nation, and the New Republic.

出版者:Princeton University Press

作者:Richard Wolin

页数:408

出版时间:2010-7-1

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780691129983

图书标签:历史法国思想史知识分子社会史文革政治学知识分子研究

Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Julia Kristeva, Phillipe Sollers, and Jean-Luc Godard. During the 1960s, a who's who of French thinkers, writers, and artists, spurred by China's Cultural Revolution, were seized with a fascination for Maoism. Combining a merciless exposé of left-wing political folly and cross-cultural misunderstanding with a spirited defense of the 1960s, The Wind from the East tells the colorful story of this legendary period in France. Richard Wolin shows how French students and intellectuals, inspired by their perceptions of the Cultural Revolution, and motivated by utopian hopes, incited grassroots social movements and reinvigorated French civic and cultural life.

Wolin's riveting narrative reveals that Maoism's allure among France's best and brightest actually had little to do with a real understanding of Chinese politics. Instead, it paradoxically served as a vehicle for an emancipatory transformation of French society. French student leftists took up the trope of "cultural revolution," applying it to their criticisms of everyday life. Wolin examines how Maoism captured the imaginations of France's leading cultural figures, influencing Sartre's "perfect Maoist moment"; Foucault's conception of power; Sollers's chic, leftist intellectual journal Tel Quel; as well as Kristeva's book on Chinese women--which included a vigorous defense of foot-binding.

Recounting the cultural and political odyssey of French students and intellectuals in the 1960s, The Wind from the East illustrates how the Maoist phenomenon unexpectedly sparked a democratic political sea change in France.

读后感

萧轶/文 1968　年1月，法国青年和体育部长弗朗索瓦·米索福前往巴黎大学楠泰尔学院为游泳池落成剪彩。由于不满大学对于男生访问女生宿舍的严格限制，一些学生围住部长，德裔无政府主义者、外号“红毛丹尼”的丹尼尔·科恩－班迪质问，“为何从不谈论学生性方面问题”，部长轻率...  

中肯的评价:这本挺难读的。断断续续，分了两三口气才看完。人名一堆，理论一堆，信手拈来，往往只提几个关键人名、概念，甚至大量的隐喻和曲笔。作者是基于对法国理论有一定了解基础的口吻在阐述，嗯，是的，也就是说默认读者对法国理论和五月风暴了解不止一星半点，看过大量相...  

这本书反复将共产主义和人道主义对立，比如说福柯领悟到人道主义更为重要，由此脱离左派运动等等。 这种对立貌似很有道理，但实际上法国左派运动号召知识分子进工厂做工等等，这也应当被视作某种人道主义行为吧。 我认为共产主义跟人道主义有不少重叠交叉地方。 作者假如要把两...  

和作者观点差异很大，四星完全是因为他对六七十年代的法国毛主义做了细致的梳理。 后面朱特的推荐语说这本书“审慎公正”，个人并不赞同。详实细致可以，但说这本书“公正”并不合适。它的情感色彩、意识形态倾向非常明显不加掩饰，我对这种写法没意见，但显然不能用“审慎公正...

以前看Simone Weil的评传，非常佩服：那么一个文文弱弱的虔诚天主教小姑娘，居然是个共产主义者，竟然跑到工厂当女工。 现在看这本《东边来的风》，才发现，法国的天主教+法共，远不止Weil一个人。当时名声最大的恐怕就是Althusser了。铁派法共Althusser当时请求跟教皇见面，...  

用户评价

（之前的不小心删了）作者的主要观点在introduction，大概是五月风暴虽然宏观上对zz没有太大影响，但却改变了人们，特别是学生、学者，的身份认同与zz参与观念（与lived experience有关）。虽然说五月风暴的发起者们都以毛主义者自居，但是所谓“毛主义”更多地与批判法国现状、表达政治诉求有关，与中国本身并没有太大的关系，只是self-flegellating的知识分子们借中国名义与自己的“bourgeosis intellectual”身份划清界线罢了。

"And although the students’ aims and demands varied greatly from country to country, these worldwide political uprisings indubitably possessed something in common. But what, exactly?" And why at this time, exactly?

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有种读得莫名其妙的感觉

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