Richard Wolin, The Wind From the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s Princeton U. Press, 2010
Womens' liberation, immigrants' and prisoners' rights, gay liberation and queer studies -- they're some of the most enduring legacies of the 1960s and '70s. And as Richard Wolin argues, they're partially the inheritance of Maoism in France. Wolin explores the rise of Maoism in that country following the upheavals of 1968 and its impact on the thinking of intellectuals like Sartre and Foucault. (Encore presentation; listen to audio here.)