Research Catalog

Title

The summer of theory : history of a rebellion, 1960-1990 / Philipp Felsch ; translated by Tony Crawford.

Author

Felsch, Philipp

Publication

• Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Crawford, Tony (Translator)

Description

xiv, 333 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The story of how the German Left fell in love with theory"--

Uniform Title

Lange Sommer der Theorie. English

Alternative Title

• Lange Sommer der Theorie.
• History of a rebellion, 1960-1990

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Intellectuals > Germany (West) > History > 20th century
• Books and reading > Germany (West)
• Books and reading
• Intellectual life
• Intellectual life > French influences
• Intellectuals
• Politics and government
• Germany (West) > Intellectual life > 20th century
• Germany (West) > Politics and government > 1945-1990
• Germany (West) > Intellectual life > French influences
• Germany (West)

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Originally published in German as 'Der lange Sommer der Theorie' by Philipp Felsch, Verlag C. H. Beck oHG, München, 2015."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [284]-321) and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1965 The Hour of Theory -- 1. Federal Republic of Adorno -- Reflections from Damaged Life -- Culture after Working Hours -- In the Literary Supermarket -- Adorno Answers -- Are Your Endeavours Aimed at Changing the World? -- 2. In the Suhrkamp Culture -- New Leftists -- He Didn't Write -- School of Hard Books -- Paperback Theory -- Birth of a Genre -- 1970 Endless Discussions -- 3. Ill-Made Books -- Theoretical Practice -- Smash Bourgeois Copyright! -- Mondays, Fridays and Sundays -- The Disorder of Discourse -- 4. Wolfsburg Empire -- Proletarian Public Sphere -- In the Land of Class Struggle -- The Lightness of Being Communist -- A Fateful Stroke of Luck -- 1977 Reading French in the German Autumn -- 5. (Possible) Reasons for the Happiness of Thought -- All Kinds of Escapes -- Intensity Is Not a Feeling -- The Laugh of Merve -- Vague Thinkers -- 6. The Reader as Partisan -- The Death of the Author -- The Pleasure of the Text -- Children's Books -- A Different Mode of Production -- Lying on Water -- 7. Foucault and the Terrorists -- A Schweppes in Paris -- Political Tourists -- Vermin -- On Tunix Beach -- 1984 The End of History -- 8. Critique of Pure Text -- The Master Thinkers -- Adults Only -- Sola Scriptura -- Aesthetics of Counter-Enlightenment -- A Little Materialism -- 9. Into the White Cube -- The Mountain of Truth -- Be Smart -- Take Part -- German Issues -- The Island of Posthistoire -- The Trouble with Duchamp -- 10. Prussianism and Spontaneism -- War in the Time of Total Peace -- Machiavelli in Westphalia -- The Wild Academy -- In Search of the Punctum -- Jacob Taubes's Best Enemy -- 11. Disco Dispositive -- Tyrannies of Intimacy -- Pub Blather -- The Art of Having a Beer -- In the Jungle -- Above the Clouds.

Call Number

JFE 22-580

ISBN

• 9781509539857
• 1509539859

LCCN

2021009973

OCLC

1245250740

Author

Felsch, Philipp, author.

Title

The summer of theory : history of a rebellion, 1960-1990 / Philipp Felsch ; translated by Tony Crawford.

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Edition

English edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [284]-321) and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Crawford, Tony (Translator), translator.

Translation Of:

Translation of: Felsch, Philipp. Lange Sommer der Theorie München : Verlag C. H. Beck, [2015] 9783406668531 (DLC) 2015398257

Other Form:

Online version: Felsch, Philipp. Summer of theory Medford, MA : Polity, [2021] 9781509539871 (DLC) 2021009974

Research Call Number

JFE 22-580