The years 1968-2018 : an intellectual and political history (I)

The aim of this lecture has been to retrace these years, from my twenties to the present day, illuminating them from the perspective of my own itinerary, in all its dimensions. In fact, I bet that a subjective history of this kind would bring additional intelligibility to this period, and in particular to the history of the Second Left, of which I was one of the organic intellectuals. In this way, I followed in the footsteps of Richard Hoggart, who had defined the nature of his 33 Newport Street when he wrote: "I strive to start from a personal story and to draw from it a meaning that goes beyond the level of the individual". This lecture was reproduced in the first two parts of my book Notre histoire intellectuelle et politique: 1968-2018 published by Editions du Seuil in August 2018.