Sixties radical thought was still committed to totalized utopian master narratives

Evidence

Laing describes his project as a response to the ‘‘need for a strong, firm primary theory that can draw each practice and theory into relation to the central concerns of all forms of psychotherapy… . Most fundamentally, a critical theory must be able to place all theories and practices within the scope of a total vision of the ontological structure of being human’’ (48). — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 669

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The utopian attack on dualism pivoted into postmodern philosophy — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 685; The 1970 Wisconsin math building bombing marked the self-destructive climax of sixties radicalism — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 1097; 60s Utopian impulses fragmented into micropolitical movements and spatialized visions — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 380 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• 60s Utopian impulses fragmented into micropolitical movements and spatialized visions #contradicts (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 380
• Post-1968 Western radicalism abandoned belief in domestic socialist revolution #qualifies (0.80) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 126