The Long 1968 Revisions and Ne Perspectives [Hardcover]

From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on new significance for the present moment, which bears certain uncanny resemblances to that time. The Long 1968 explores the wide-ranging impact of the year and its aftermath in politics, theory, the arts, and international relationsand its uses today.

Daniel J. Sherman is Professor of Art History at the University of North Carolina.

Ruud van Dijk is Professor of History and International Relations at the University of Amsterdam.

Jasmine Alinder is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

A. Aneesh is Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Bringing together the fields of visual culture, art history, film and media studies, philosophy, and history, The Long 1968 illuminates the often-overlooked histories of 1968. . . . [T]he diverse sources and methodologies makes this a welcome addition that encourages further avenues of research.The Long 1968 makes an important contribution to our understanding of politics and social life over four decades after the revolutionary fervor of 1968. As a complex, overlapping series of reflections on the impact of '68 in a present moment characterized by political apathy, cynicism, paralysis, and even despair, the volume is especially welcome. For those readers still committed to the possibility of political and social transformation, the volume offers both a sobering assessment of the differences between then and now and an intriguing invitation to reclaim the spirit of '68 for creative interventions in the present. . . . Sophisticated enough for an audience of specialists but also will be accessible to non-speclS'