From revolution to ethics: May 1968 and contemporary French thought

Cobblestone beaches: normative contradictions of the May revolt

Pt. 1. The sabre and the keyhole: French Maoism, violence, and prisoner dignity

A press conference

Violence and the Gauche proletarienne

The president's man and the state's thumb

Popular justice and incarcerated leftists

The Groupe d'information sur les prisons

These modern Bastilles

Pt. 2. Spinoza on Prozac: from institutional psychotherapy to the philosophy of desire

Anti-psychiatry and the philosophy of desire

Anti-Oedipus: redux and reception, ethics and origins

Institutional psychotherapy and the La Borde Psychiatric Clinic

Felix Guattari's devolution

Gilles Deleuze's Spinozist ethics

Schizophrenia and fascism

Craziness is a dead end

Pt. 3. "Your sexual revolution is not ours": French feminist "moralism" and the limits of desire

Gender and '68: tensions from the start

Guy Hocquenghem's dark encounter with feminism

Feminism, law, rape, and leftist male reaction

Boy trouble: French pedophiliac discourse of the 1970s

Desire has its limits

Pt. 4. When all bets are off: ethical Jansenism and the new philosophers

The main event

Between the union of the left and Jansenism

Maurice Clavel

The angel in the world

The dialectic by the side of the road

John Locke was not French, or the varieties of ethical experience.