Word: anarchisme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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U.S. Historian Max Nomad believes that anarchists follow a "daydream of desperate romantics." Man's urge to do away with the apparatus that governs him is obviously almost as old as government itself. It is, perhaps, the ultimate Utopia-the idea of a community totally without constraint. Zeno, founder...
The same strain of anti-authoritarianism ran through the writing of Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers, eventually leading to a fresh, secular cult among the Romantics, notably in Rousseau, whose "natural man" was supposed to be superior to artificial government. One of the cries of the French Revolution, along with "Liberte...
Of course, such an outlook goes back to the New Deal and earlier, but it gained new impetus during and since the Kennedy years. Paradoxically, perhaps, in view of their desire to work with groups, these students share the individualism, not to say anarchism, of the uncommitted law students, and...
With characteristic self-mockery, the Beatles are proclaiming that they have snuffed out their old selves to make room for the new Beatles incarnate. And there is some truth to it. Without having lost any of the genial anarchism with which they helped revolutionize the life style of young people...
Many colleges are receptive even to the specialized interests of a relatively small number of students. Thus Wesleyan's psychology department bowed to undergraduate requests for a course on "witchcraft and the occult." Among some 15 student-requested courses created at Stanford were seminars on "Ideology and Utopia" and...