Situationism (20TH CENTURY)

Advocacy of comprehensive revolution.

Radical and not always precise proposal for total revolutionary transformation of every aspect of life, beginning with individual experience; much in evidence in France in May 1968.

Source:
Alan Bullock, Oliver Stallybrass, and Stephen Trombley, eds, The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought, 2nd edn (London, 1988)

Situationism may also refer to:

  • A term incorrectly applied to the ideas of the Situationist International, an international political and artistic movement active from 1957 through 1972
  • Situationism (psychology), a current started in 1968 which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations
  • Situational ethics, a Christian ethical theory developed in 1963 by Episcopal priest Joseph Fletcherthe, according to which the morality of an act is a function of the state of the system when it occurs

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