The Summer of Theory: History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990

ISBN-13: 9781509539857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str.

Philipp Felsch; Tony Crawford

Recenzje

"Impassioned and full of detail, this is a fascinating snapshot of the period."Publisher's Weekly"Felsch's stance (well captured by his English translator, Tony Crawford) is that of a wry but sympathetic participant-observer. You end the book uncertain as to whether you should marvel at the grandiose pointlessness of it all, or celebrate a movement that put pure thought, accessed by careful reading and refined through intense discussions with comrades, at the very centre of life."Sheila Fitzpatrick, Australian Book Review"evocative and brilliant"European Journal of Social Theory"evocative and brilliant" European Journal of Social Theor

Spis treści

Introduction: What Was Theory?1965: The Hour of Theory1. Federal Republic of AdornoReflections from Damaged LifeCulture After Working HoursIn the Literary SupermarketAdorno AnswersAre Your Endeavours Aimed at Changing the World?2. In the Suhrkamp CultureNew LeftistsHe Didn't WriteSchool of Hard BooksPaperback TheoryBirth of a Genre1970: Endless Discussions3. Ill-made BooksTheoretical PracticeSmash Bourgeois Copyright!Mondays, Fridays and SundaysThe Disorder of Discourse4. Wolfsburg EmpireProletarian Public SphereIn the Land of Class StruggleThe Lightness of Being CommunistA Fateful Stroke of Luck1977: Reading French in the German Autumn5. (Possible) Reasons for the Happiness of ThoughtAll Kinds of EscapesIntensity Is Not a FeelingThe Laugh of MerveVague Thinkers6. The Reader as PartisanThe Death of the AuthorThe Pleasure of the TextChildren's BooksA Different Mode of ProductionLying on Water7. Foucault and the TerroristsA Schweppes in ParisPolitical TouristsVerminOn Tunix Beach1984: The End of History8. Critique of Pure TextThe Master ThinkersAdults OnlySola ScripturaAesthetics of Counter-EnlightenmentA Little Materialism9. Into the White CubeThe Mountain of TruthBe Smart - Take PartGerman IssuesThe Island of PosthistoireThe Trouble with Duchamp10. Prussianism and SpontaneismWar in the Time of Total PeaceMachiavelli in WestphaliaThe Wild AcademyIn Search of the PunctumJacob Taubes's Best Enemy11. Disco DispositiveTyrannies of IntimacyPub BlatherThe Art of Having a BeerIn the JungleAbove the CloudsEpilogue: After Theory?BibliographyAppendix: Translations of IllustrationsNotesIndex

O autorze

Philipp Felsch is Professor of Cultural History at Humboldt University, Berlin.