Sixties politics reframed the political as contests over subjectivity itself

Evidence

What inflects this analysis toward the sixties, and the postmodern, is its emphasis on the political content of subjectivity, and its focus on politics anchored in questions of subjectivity rather than in what was traditionally viewed as the social. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 643

Categorization

  • recurring: this claim recurs 3 times within its source
  • XREF: connects to: The shift to subjectivity-based politics relocated rather than abandoned the political — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 996; Establishment-friendly voices reframed May 1968’s radical politics as individualism — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 99

Broader Connections