Book contents
- Student Revolt in 1968
- New Studies in European History
- Student Revolt in 1968
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: History, Myth and Memory of 1968
- Part I Education and Culture
- Part II The Politics of Revolt
- Part III Crisis of the University
- Chapter 8 ‘Question, Doubt and Criticise’
- Chapter 9 ‘Student Power’
- Chapter 10 ‘An Asylum for Delinquents’
- Chapter 11 ‘A Golden Ghetto’
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 8 - ‘Question, Doubt and Criticise’
Free Speech at the Free University
from Part III - Crisis of the University
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2019
Book contents
- Student Revolt in 1968
- New Studies in European History
- Student Revolt in 1968
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: History, Myth and Memory of 1968
- Part I Education and Culture
- Part II The Politics of Revolt
- Part III Crisis of the University
- Chapter 8 ‘Question, Doubt and Criticise’
- Chapter 9 ‘Student Power’
- Chapter 10 ‘An Asylum for Delinquents’
- Chapter 11 ‘A Golden Ghetto’
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 8 describes the protest movement at the Free University of Berlin, and in particular a series of conflicts over free speech. I argue that two versions of autonomy confronted each other in the Kuby Affair and the Krippendorff Affair at the FU, pitting a democratic self-conception of the student body versus administrative power. Speech provided the ostensible rationale for a struggle over student self-government, autonomy and democracy. The public use of criticism demanded by the protest movement sapped the FU rector’s authority in a cycle of provocation, overreaction and protest.
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- Student Revolt in 1968France, Italy and West Germany, pp. 177 - 205Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019