Title: Revolutiond for the Future: May '68 and the Prague SpringPublished by: Éditions Suture, Lyon
Release Date: 2020
Contributors: Jana NDIAYE BERANKOVA, Michael HAUSER, Nick NESBITT
Genre: theory / elmélet
Pages: 324
ISBN13: 978-2-9569056-1-5
11.500 HUF
The title of this book, “Revolutions for the Future,” implies that sometimes, we can discover future orientations by looking into the forgotten possibilities of historical events. The key to the future might as well be buried under the obliterated paths of the past. And while it is true that the “events of 1968” became a paradigmatic moment for an entire generation of philosophers and that a whole new series of philosophical concepts can be traced back to this moment, by studying them attentively, we might be able to understand our present crisis. 1989 became a date symbolizing, for some, the end of history; for others, who recalled the hopes that had been foreclosed, it was a strange, incomprehensible catastrophe. And yet, the authors of this book doubt that such an end might be definitive. Through their analysis of the theoretical contributions of 1968, they almost seem to follow Louis Althusser’s famous reformulation of Lenin: “without theory, no revolutionary action.” “Revolutions for the Future” points to the possibility that the forgotten affirmative aspects of these events can be resurrected at any moment; 1968 might as well be an unfinished revolution, a work-in-progress, a specter haunting our current century.
