{"product_id":"the-wind-from-the-east-9780691178233","title":"The Wind From the East","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Wind From the East must be regarded as a monument of committed scholarship. It is also a fascinating chronicle of people who, however ludicrous they may seem at times, did on occasion think and act with profound seriousness. For that reason the book is a valuable addition to the literature of the era.\"--David Gress, Wall Street Journal \"Wolin surveys a wide range of French intellectuals' responses to Mao's China. The best of these responses creatively appropriate the concept of cultural revolution, leading to a new libertarianism and to the embrace of causes such as gay rights, women's liberation, and prison reform; the worst of them became fatally compromised by a blind endorsement of the crimes of Chinese communism... Wolin skewers irresponsible intellectual posturing in a manner reminiscent of the late Tony Judt, but reveals an underlying sympathy with the goals and ideals, if not always with the choices, of the Gauchistes. A masterful performance.\"--Choice \"Even as he is documenting the delusions of the sixty-eighters--often with considerable wit, and with a seemingly encyclopedic familiarity--Wolin grants credence to their skewed perception of the status quo in France and in the West more generally. Disagreements and exasperations aside, I found this book compulsively readable. The history of Sixties is a long way from being exhausted.\"--John Wilson, Books \u0026amp; Culture \"[A] fascinating and dispassionate account of one of the more curious follies of recent times.\"--Jeremy Jennings, Standpoint \"Wolin argues that fascination with the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution reflected, not simply a taste for exoticism, but a delayed response to postwar capitalist modernisation.\"--Scott McLemee, The National \"Richard Wolin has provided us with an informative and readable account of a fascinating episode in twentieth-century French intellectual history, knowledgeably placing it into its wider biographical and political contexts.\"--Moritz Follmer, French History \"The Wind from the East tells the story of the '68 generation with a much needed awareness of the complexities of its intellectual odyssey. It is, in the end, a meditation of considerable depth on the formation of political judgments. As such, it is an important book, both within the field of French history and beyond.\"--Michael C. Behrent, H-France Review \"The Wind from the East will be a rewarding and exciting reading for all those with an interest in French studies, politics, and intellectual history.\"--Viola Brisolin, European Legacy","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403852030295,"sku":"9780691178233","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691178233.jpg?v=1730484718","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-wind-from-the-east-9780691178233","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}