Levinas wavers on the ethical significance of May 1968, but here is what he writes in ‘Without Identity’, newly translated by Nidra Poller in her edition of Levinas’s Humanism of the Other:
It is interesting to note the dominance, among the most imperative ‘sentiments’ of May 1968, of the refusal of a humanity defined by its satisfaction, by its receipts and expenditures, and not by its vulnerability more passive than all passivity, its debt to the other. What was contested, beyond capitalism and exploitation, was their conditions: the individual taken as accumulation in being, by honours, titles, professional competence – ontological tumefaction weighing so heavily on others as to crush them, instituting a hierarchical society that maintains itself beyond the necessities of consumption and that no religious breath could make more egalitarian. Behind the capital in having weighed a capital in being.
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