Translation of: La pensée 68

Includes bibliographical references and index

Preface to the English translation -- Foreword. The philosophy of the '68 period ; May '68: humanism or individualism? ; Antihumanism in '68 philosophy ; Why antihumanism? Why humanism once again? -- The ideal type for sixties philosophy. The intellectual structure of the sixties ; On the style of the philosophy of the sixties ; The subject on trial ; French philosophy, hyperbolic repetition (of German philosophy?) ; The subject's appeal -- Interpretations of May 1968. The logic of interpretations ; The participants' point of view ; May as pseudorevolution; or, Change within continuity ; May as event ; For interpretative pluralism ; May '68 and the death of the subject -- French Nietzscheanism (Foucault). Defense and illustration of Foucault's Vulgate ; Derrida against Foucault: reason and unreason ; Gauchet and Swain against Foucault: the logic of democracy ; The death of man ; Return of the subject? -- French Heideggerianism (Derrida). From difference to differance ; Writing as the subversion of metaphysics ; Dead ends of differance ; And all the rest is literature -- French Marxism (Bourdieu). Bourdieu against Althusser: Marxism denied ; A Popperian critique of Bourdieu ; Toward a criticist critique of sociologism ; The confrontation with Kant -- French Freudianism (Lacan). The three interpretations of Freud and the question of the subject ; The status of subjectivity: "the true subject" versus "the ego" ; Effects of the splitting of the subject: Lacan's antihumanism ; From the theory of subjectivity to the destruction of the ego -- Return to the subject. The deaths of the subject ; On the metaphysical subject ; From the metaphysical subject to Dasein ; Subjectivity after its deconstruction

Translated from French