Langages révolutionnaires chez les socialistes utopiques et chez les révoltés de Mai ’68 : de l’idéal de liberté à la liberté devenue mythe
Revolutionary Speeches among Utopian Socialists and the May ’68 Protesters: From the Ideal of Freedom to Liberty as a Myth

Summary/Abstract: All along the short history on the revolutionary language, there have been two seminal moments, the romantic and thepostmodern. The ”utopian socialism” from the first one uses different rhetoric than the so-called ”utopian communism” from the second one. Our goal is to show that differences between these two kinds of rhetoric are maybe too important not to put into question the signification of ”utopian”. In order to realize this demonstration, we address successively fragments from some French utopian socialists and tracts from May 1968. Are they both ”utopian” in the same way, and did future justify this attribute? This question concerns first of all the legacy of Alain Touraine‘s interpretation of May 1968, but also the relationship between language and history.

• Details
• Contents