A Political Life: 1937 - 1985
A Political Life: 1937 - 1985
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Author(s): Badiou
Badiou, Alain
ISBN No.: 9781509565665
Pages: 288
Year: 202602
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
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I. 1937-1971: From Zero to Thirty Years Old or, From My ''Colonial'' Birth to the Evental Cut Represented by May 1968 1. Birth, Childhood, and World War (1937-1947) 1a. 1937 1b. Morocco 1c. Bellerive-sur-Allier and Pétain 1d. Toulouse and the Occupation 1e. Toulouse and Liberation 1f.


Toulouse and My First Newspaper 1g. Autobiographies and Proper Names 1h. Sex and History: The Burghers of Calais 2. The Paradise of the Lycée (1947-1955) 2a. Toulouse, Transitions: Lycée Bellevue 2b. Toulouse, Toward the End: The First Glimmers of Politics 2c. Honours Received 2d. A Meditation on the Year 1954 3.


Failures and Successes (1955-1956) 3a. Into Action! 3b. Historical Invariants, from Poujade to the Gilets Jaunes 3c. I Preside and Fail; I Compete and Succeed 4. I Become a Socialist (1956-1958) 4a. Budding Politicians at the ENS 4b. Lessons from History: The Category of the "Groupuscule" 4c. The Manoeuvrings of the "Socialist" Party 4d.


An Obscure Decision? 4e. In the Name of the Father: Adhesion, Structuring, Action 4f. A Subjective Defect: The Oppositional Mentality 4g. Was There Any Point to All of This? 5. 13 May 1958 and its Effects (1958-1961) 5a. Coup d''État and Scission: The PSA 5b. Riots in Budapest, Revolution in Havana 5c. Splits and Fusions: from the PSA to the PSU 5d.


1960-1961 Again: Terray, Verstraeten, Me.and Sartre 5e. The Belgian Dimension of My Political Life: Beginnings 5f. Heroes and Martyrs of Our Vision: Castro, Lumumba 5g. The Workers: A Free Inquiry 80 5h. The Jeanson Network and Clandestinity: The Temptation of the Sublime 6. An Overtly Military Music 6a. Manifesto of the 121 6b.


A Handful of Generals on Stage 6c. My France and its Army 6d. A Political Lesson, an Academic Ruse, a Music Exam 6e. An Experience of Mass Alliance: The Army as Seen from Below 6f. The Missile Crisis: The Nuclear War Will Not Take Place 7. A Career of Note in the Champagne Region? (1963-1968) 7a. The Reims Boys'' Lycée as Seen Through a Teacher''s Eyes 7b. "Leftist" Social Democracy--A Stubborn Myth 7c.


A Provincial Temptation à la Balzac 7d. A Trip: Bolivia, for Che Guevara''s Tomb 7e. Who Was I in the Spring of 1968? II. 1968-1985: From Thirty to Forty-Four Years of Age, or, from a Flamboyant Maoism to the Veiled Beginnings of the Ideological and Statist Counter-Revolution 8. "Le Joli Mai" (1968-1970) 8a. Event and Subjectivation Seen from Close Quarters 8b. Two Years that Devastated a Subject: 1969-1970 8c. Provincial Self-sufficiency? 8d.


An Anticipation of Maoism: The Sino-Soviet Controversy 8e. The Creation of Paris-VIII and My Uprooting 9. The Early Red Years (1970-1985) 9a. A Creature with a Very Precise Name: Group for the Foundation of the Union of French Communists (Marxist-Leninist) 9b. An Organisation''s First Steps 9c. Two Convictions That Have Become Rare 10. Anarchic Journey into the Work of the UCFml (1970-1985) 10a. The Factory as Political Site: Communist Worker Nuclei 10b.


On the Side of the People: The Popular Anti-Capitalist Committees 10c. Maoist Politics in the Countryside 10d. A Subjective Parenthesis on the Political Question of "Identities" 10e. University and Youth: Problems of Recruitment 10f. The Maoist Pole 10g. Political Consistency of the International Proletariat of France: The Great Organised Struggle of the Sonacotra Hostels (1975-1979) 10h. Le Marxiste-Léniniste, a Proud Publication 10i. State of the UCFml in the Early 1980s 11.


Endgame for the UCFml (1981-1985) 11a. What Was it that Started in the 1980s? 11b. What did I Begin Again in the 1980s? 11c. The Ideologues of the Counter-revolution and their "New Philosophy" 11d. The Capitalist Media, and Our One Hundred and Forty-Five Newspapers 11e. Creation and Development of the Fortnightly Le Perroquet Provisional Conclusion for the Present Day.


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