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The Summer of Theory
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Description
In his magnificently written book, Philipp Felsch follows the hopes and dreams of a generation that entered the jungle of difficult texts. His setting is West Germany in the decades from the 1960s to the 1990s: in a world frozen in the Cold War, movement only came from big ideas. It was the time of apocalyptic master thinkers, upsetting reading experiences and glamorous incomprehensibility. As the German publisher Suhrkamp published Adorno's Minima Moralia and other High Theory works of the Frankfurt School, a small publisher in West Berlin, Merve Verlag, provided readers with a steady stream of the subversive new theory coming out of France.
By following the adventures of the publishers who provided the books and the reading communities that consumed and debated them, Philipp Felsch tells the remarkable story of an intellectual revolt when the German Left fell in love with Theory.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2021-10-01
Publication Date:
2021-12-06
Publisher:
Polity Press
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1509539859
ISBN13:
9781509539857
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
698 g
Height:
163 cm
Width:
238 cm
Thickness:
37 cm
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