Rethinking the New Left

Gosse, Van

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“…It was an era of great economic and material abundance. During this period, any White male high school graduate could reasonably expect to earn enough money to support a family, own a house, a car, abundant material goods and household appliances, and send his children to college (Gosse, 2005).…”

Section: Authenticity and American Culturementioning

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“…The New Left emerged in the 1960s, as a successor to the American communist party that had been weakened by both Mc-Carthyism, and the growing recognition of the totalitarian nature of Russian communism. In contrast to the traditional American left which consisted of an alliance between leftist intellectuals and blue collar workers, the New Left consisted primarily of college students, coming from financially comfortable middle class families, who rejected mainstream, consumer culture establishment values and embraced aspects of left wing ideology, and a series of progressive causes including the civil rights movement, gender equality, proabortion policies, and gay rights (Gosse, 2005). Other important unifying themes were the antinuclear movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s and perhaps most explosively, the Vietnam War protests.…”

Section: The New Left the Counterculture And Humanistic Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The unbearable lightness of being: Authenticity and the search for the real.

Safran¹

2017

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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In this article I review some of the ways in which the themes of authenticity, spontaneity and improvisation have become important values in the writing of many contemporary psychoanalysts. I examine the emergence of this trend in the context of historical and cultural changes in the construction of the self, and the fragmentation of traditional beliefs and social structures linking the individual to the collective. I also explore the relationship between the principle of authenticity and various dimensions including autonomy, mutuality, intersubjectivity, and the ethical realm. In addition I explore the perceived tensions between traditional social forms and the experience of authenticity, and examine the implications of the questions raised in this essay for our conception of the nature of psychoanalytic practice.

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Section: Authenticity and American Culturementioning

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Section: The New Left the Counterculture And Humanistic Psychologymentioning

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The unbearable lightness of being: Authenticity and the search for the real.

Safran¹

2017

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…In Rethinking the New Left, Van Gosse underscores the origins and the legacies of the hallmark actions of the 1960s with descriptions of the 1950s Daughters of Bilitis, several late-1960s Third World movements, and the Gay Liberation Front. 5 Mary Ann Wynkoop's Dissent in the Heartland chronicles 1960s activism at Indiana University, focusing on the differences between Midwestern radicals and their East and West Coast counterparts. 6 And in American Babylon, Robert O. Self details the Black Panthers' emergence from a history of African-American resistance, struggle, and activism in Oakland stretching back to promises of postwar racial equality and prosperity, emphasizing the centrality of local conditions and local history in determining the character of 1960s local urban politics.…”

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Fighting for a Radical City: Student Protesters and the Politics of Space in 1960s and 1970s Downtown Manhattan

Beasley¹

2009

Urban History Review

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In the popular imagination, 1960s radicalism often appears as a national phenomenon that varied little from region to region. The case of downtown Manhattan during these years, however, challenges this assumption. Student radicals at New York University in Greenwich Village were just as concerned with issues of urban equity and the politics of urban space as they were with more national concerns, such as ending the Vietnam War. NYU students advocated that the university offer open admissions and free tuition to any New Yorker who wished to attend and fought against what they perceived to be the university’s imperialistic management of Bellevue Hospital.In this paper, I consider the ways in which late 1960s radicals in downtown Manhattan negotiated how a city should be constituted, and I argue that, in challenging the concrete city conditions that they deemed to be indicative of larger systemic problems, these radicals’ activism represents not only a piece of 1960s radical history but also a chapter of local urban history. Manhattan radicalism in the 1960s was predicated on the urban environment that it was a part of, and a consideration of the radical efforts to reconstruct the postwar city is essential to understanding period radicalism and the development of cities.The rapid and transformative changes in American metropolitan areas after the Second World War and the leftist radicalism that is the hallmark of the decade are narratives that commentators often tell as two different, unrelated stories, even though, in the case of New York City, student activism had everything to do with the postwar city. My examination of radicals’ work to enact local change takes steps toward furthering the efforts of a generation of scholars who have tried to complicate our view of “the sixties.”Dans l’imaginaire populaire, le radicalisme des années soixante semble souvent un phénomène peu variable d’une région à une autre. Cependant, en considérant la situation des quartiers du sud de Manhattan, cette supposition est remise en question. Les étudiants radicaux de New York University (NYU) à Greenwich Village étaient autant concernés par des enjeux d’équité urbaine et la politique de développement urbain que par des sujets nationaux, comme mettre un terme à la guerre du Vietnam. Les étudiants de NYU ont lutté pour des admissions plus ouvertes et l’annulation des droits de scolarité pour tous les New Yorkais qui souhaitaient aller à l’université. Ils combattaient ce qu’ils percevaient comme de l’impérialisme de la part de l’Université dans la gestion de l’hôpital Bellevue.Dans cet article, j’aborde les manières par lesquelles les radicaux de Manhattan des années soixante ont déterminé comment une ville devait être constituée. Je soutiens qu’en contestant les conditions urbaines, ils ont mis en lumière des problèmes systémiques plus larges. L’activisme de ces radicaux ne constitue pas seulement une partie de l’histoire radicale des années soixante, mais aussi un chapitre de l’histoire locale et urbaine. Le radicalisme de Manhattan d...

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“…Critical of the legalist and reformist approaches of traditional left-wing parties, these movements proposed different ways of understanding and bringing about revolution and the transformation of cultural, economic, and political features of common life (Marchesi, 2019; Martín Álvarez and Rey Tristán, 2012). They emerged against the global backdrop of the Cold War, the Second Vatican Council, the decolonization of Asia and Africa, the Vietnam War, the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and revolutionary movements in the United States and Europe (Artaraz, 2006; Dreyfus-Armand et al, 2000; Gosse, 2005; Keucheyan, 2012; Marwick, 1998). Some, but not all, of the younger members of this Latin American New Left (which included Marxists, socialists, supporters of liberation theology, anarchists, and nationalists, forming a diffuse network of social mobilization, cultural revolt, and politicization) decided to resort to arms and employ rural and/or urban guerrilla strategies to intervene in their respective countries.…”

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Almost disarmed: Politics and violence in the final years of the Argentine organization Montoneros (1979–1983)

Slipak

2021

Violence: An International Journal

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In this article, I analyze the debates, declarations, and silences surrounding the issue of violence during the final years of the Argentine insurgent group Montoneros (1979–1983). I examine the official documents and bulletins written while the group was in exile, as well as the statements and publications of dissident groups (the Peronismo Montonero Auténtico of 1979 and the Montoneros 17 de Octubre of 1980) and other critical groups (the Agrupación Eva Perón of 1980). From a political theory perspective, I will focus on the specificity of this space of belonging, its symbols, its representations, and its actions. In this study, I intend to (a) shed light on the final stage of the Montoneros organization, which, with few exceptions, has not been subjected to historiographical or sociological analysis, or studied by political science and (b) contribute to a deeper understanding of the dissolution processes undergone by armed insurgent groups in Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Rethinking the New Left

Cited by 61 publications

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The unbearable lightness of being: Authenticity and the search for the real.

The unbearable lightness of being: Authenticity and the search for the real.

Fighting for a Radical City: Student Protesters and the Politics of Space in 1960s and 1970s Downtown Manhattan

Almost disarmed: Politics and violence in the final years of the Argentine organization Montoneros (1979–1983)

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