Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair by Carole Sweeney

Author:Carole Sweeney [Sweeney, Carole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780826422620
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2013-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

Notes

1Kristin Ross, May ’68 and its Afterlives (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 184–5.

2Michallat, 314.

3Karl Marx, Poverty of Philosophy (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1920, orig. pub 1847), 33.

4Philippe Sollers, Éloge de l’infini (Paris: Gallimard, 2001), 902. See also Armine K. Mortimer, ‘The Third Closet: Sollers’s War’, Yale French Studies ‘Turns to the Right?’, 16, 117 (2009) 169–82.

5Serge Halimi, ‘France: Sarkozy’s Old Familiar Song’, Le Monde diplomatique, http://mondediplo.com/2007/06/02france [accessed 8 July 2012]. On the use of ’68 in French politics, see Daniel A. Gordon, ‘Liquidating May ’68? Generational Trajectories of the 2007 Presidential Candidates’, Modern and Contemporary France, 16,2 (2008), 143–59.

6Gilles Lipovetsky, ‘May ’68, or The Rise of Transpolitical Individualism’, in A New French Thought Political Philosophy, ed. Mark Lilla (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994), 216).

7See Nina Power and Alberto Toscano, ‘The Philosophy of Restoration: Alain Badiou and the Enemies of May’, Boundary 2, 36, 1 (2009), 27–46, 29.

8François Noudelmann and Andre Piggott, ‘A Turn to the Right: “Genealogy” in France since the 1980s’, Yale French Studies, 116/117 (2009), 7-19, 9.

9Noudelmann, 8.

10‘Turns to the Right?’, Yale French Studies, Michael Johnson and Lawrence Schehr (eds), 116/117 (2009), 1–4, 2.

11Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut, French Philosophy of the Sixties: An Essay on Antihumanism, trans. Mary Schakenber Cattap (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1990), xxxiii, 19. See also Alain Minc’s L’Avenir en face (Paris: Seuil, 1984) and his notion of ‘le capitalisme soixante-huitard’.

12Works on the meaning and legacy of May 1968, particularly around its fortieth anniversary in 2008, are too numerous to be listed in full here. On the specific connections between Sade and May 1968 in Houellebecq’s writing see Liza Steiner, Sade-Houellebecq, du boudoir au sex-shop (Paris: Éditions L’Harmattan, 2009), (36–6); Robert Gildea, ‘Forty years on: French writing on 1968 in 2008’, French History, 23, 1 (2009), 109–18; ’68, Une Histoire collective, Philippe Artières and Michel Zancarini-Fournel (eds) (Paris: La Découverte, 2008); Julian Bourg, From Revolution to Ethics: May ’68 and Contemporary French Thought (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007); Mai-Juin ’68, Dominique Dammam et al. (eds) (Paris: Editions de l’Atelier, 2008); and Michael Seidman, The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968 (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004). For a perspective on ’68 as primarily a youth revolt see Edgar Morin, ‘Mai ’68: Complexité et ambiguïté’, Pouvoirs, 39 (1986), 71–80, and Raymond Aron’s seminal reactionary reading in The Elusive Revolution, trans. Gordon Clough (New York: Praeger, 1969). See also processes of a conference ‘Mai ’68 en quarantaine’ by Boris Gobille et al., http://colloque-mai68.ens-lsh.fr/ [accessed 15 May 2008]; and Keith Reader (with Khursheed Wadia), The May 1968 Events in France: Reproductions and Interpretations (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1993).

13It is important to note that the for and against ’68 involves a complex set of debates that ranges right across the ideological spectrum. Just as there was no such thing as a unique and singular ‘pensée ’68’ there really cannot be said to be a unified ‘anti-’68 thought’. Serge Audier notes that many of the intellectuals who have been dubbed as adherents of la pensée ’68 have varying responses to it.

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