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4 The President’s Man and the State’s Thumb

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  1. Front Matter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments vii
  4. Abbreviations x
  5. Preface to the Second Edition: 1968 at Fifty xi
  6. Introduction 3
  7. Cobblestone Beaches: Normative Contradictions of the May Revolt 19
  8. The Sabre and the Keyhole: French Maoism, Violence, and Prisoner Dignity
  9. A Press Conference 45
  10. Violence and the Gauche prolétarienne 51
  11. The President’s Man and the State’s Thumb 61
  12. Popular Justice and Incarcerated Leftists 68
  13. The Groupe d’information sur les prisons 79
  14. These Modern Bastilles 96
  15. Spinoza on Prozac: From Institutional Psychotherapy to the Philosophy of Desire
  16. Anti-Psychiatry and the Philosophy of Desire 105
  17. Anti-Oedipus: Redux and Reception, Ethics and Origins 112
  18. Institutional Psychotherapy and the La Borde Psychiatric Clinic 125
  19. Félix Guattari’s Devolution 138
  20. Gilles Deleuze’s Spinozist Ethics 144
  21. Schizophrenia and Fascism 159
  22. Craziness Is a Dead End 174
  23. “Your Sexual Revolution Is Not Ours”: French Feminist “Moralism” and the Limits of Desire
  24. Gender and ’68: Tensions from the Start 179
  25. Guy Hocquenghem’s Dark Encounter with Feminism 187
  26. Feminism, Law, Rape, and Leftist Male Reaction 193
  27. Boy Trouble: French Pedophiliac Discourse of the 1970s 204
  28. Desire Has Its Limits 219
  29. When All Bets Are Off: Ethical Jansenism and the New Philosophers
  30. The Main Event 227
  31. Between the Union of the Left and Jansenism 247
  32. Maurice Clavel 261
  33. The Angel in the World 276
  34. The Dialectic by the Side of the Road 289
  35. John Locke Was Not French, or The Varieties of Ethical Experience 302
  36. Conclusion 334
  37. Notes 349
  38. Bibliography 409
  39. Index 449
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