"I have a dream" had set the tone in 1963. Sexiness, the joint and rock music expressed the sentiments of a young generation in the Western world, and FM radio spread "Sympathy for the Devil" (1968) across the earth. The sixties permanently transformed the world of life, culminating in the famous Paris May Day protests. Free love and the second women's emancipation movement weakened the pillars of authoritarian society, namely marriage and family. The resistance to the Vietnam War undermined the basic military structure of the social. Howbeit the revolutionary left failed completely politically, the radical philosophical critique of society (Adorno, Marcuse) inspired a claim to maturity and human rights that gave secular societies a media-accelerated Eros. He fascinated many people everywhere and liberalized politics and society: But is it only a dream because it ended recently?
Venue
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz Campus
Lecture hall M 118
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Organiser
Tickets
This event is free of charge.
Further information
-
Event duration:
16:15 – 17:45
-
What language:
German
© Sabina Mujkanovic
Organiser
Seniorenstudium LMU München
The Senior Studies program is a cross-faculty institution at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University. It offers its listeners its own, changing program of educational events oriented toward the interests of the older generation. In this way, it meets the request for scientific information and encounters with the younger generation.
