Abstract
Words, words, words: the student movements of the late 1960s announced themselves with an explosion of speech. The contents of those words appeared almost irrelevant. Yet if the capture of speech constituted a phenomenon in itself, independent of what was said, some quickly sought to identify the authors who had put the words in students mouths. The nomination of intellectual patrons facilitated a particular sort of engagement with the students. Rather than seeking to identify particular thinkers or ideas which inspired the student movements, this essay analyzes the way the revolts of 1968 mobilized the transformed reading practices of the mid-1960s, symbolized by a phenomenon which itself generated talk of revolution: the paperback.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 613-636 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | Journal of the History of Ideas |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - Oct 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |