La revolución cultural mundial de 1968, cincuenta años después

Abstract

This article intends to examine carefully the scope and consequences raised by the cultural revolution of 1968, also known as the French May. The analysis argues that this movement can be considered as an “event-rupture” that imposes a capital reflection on the universality and depth that distinguish this complex world revolution. The analysis will revolve around three   specific analytical axes: first, the main social actor, the student movement; second, the social fabric in which the main events are  developed, that is, the sphere of culture, the place where French  May is constituted as a true revolution; and third, the temporary moment in which these student movements break out to unleash this deep and cataclysmic rupture.