{"product_id":"the-summer-of-theory-history-of-a-rebellion-1960-1990-hardback-9781509539857","title":"The Summer of Theory; History of a Rebellion, 1960-1990 (Hardback) 9781509539857","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Summer of Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eHistory of a Rebellion, 1960-1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePhilipp Felsch (Author), Tony Crawford (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509539857, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 October 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Impassioned and full of detail, this is a fascinating snapshot of the period.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheila Fitzpatrick, \u003ci\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"...evocative and brilliant....\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEuropean Journal of Social Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"[A]n amazing book\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThesis Eleven\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Felsch is a brilliant stylist and his book is a true joy to read… With the skills of a cultural historian, Felsch has given us a vivid and often entertaining portrait of intellectuals for whom theory was not simply an academic exercise but a way of life.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Theory’ – a magical glow has emanated from this word since the sixties.  Theory was more than just a succession of ideas: it was an article of faith, a claim to truth, a lifestyle.  It spread among its adherents in cheap paperbacks and triggered heated debates in seminar rooms and cafés.  The Frankfurt School, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Adorno, Derrida, Foucault: these and others were the exotic schools and thinkers whose ideas were being devoured by young minds.  But where did the fascination for dangerous thoughts come from?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: What Was Theory?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1965: The Hour of Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.    Federal Republic of Adorno\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reflections from Damaged Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Culture After Working Hours\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the Literary Supermarket\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Adorno Answers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Are Your Endeavours Aimed at Changing the World?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2.    In the Suhrkamp Culture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e New Leftists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e He Didn’t Write\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e School of Hard Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Paperback Theory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Birth of a Genre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1970: Endless Discussions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3.    Ill-made Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Theoretical Practice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Smash Bourgeois Copyright!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Mondays, Fridays and Sundays\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Disorder of Discourse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4.    Wolfsburg Empire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Proletarian Public Sphere\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the Land of Class Struggle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Lightness of Being Communist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Fateful Stroke of Luck\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1977: Reading French in the German Autumn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5.    (Possible) Reasons for the Happiness of Thought\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e All Kinds of Escapes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Intensity Is Not a Feeling\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Laugh of Merve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Vague Thinkers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6.    The Reader as Partisan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Death of the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Pleasure of the Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Children’s Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Different Mode of Production\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lying on Water\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7.    Foucault and the Terrorists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Schweppes in Paris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Political Tourists\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Vermin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On Tunix Beach\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1984: The End of History\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8.    Critique of Pure Text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Master Thinkers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Adults Only\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Sola Scriptura\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Aesthetics of Counter-Enlightenment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Little Materialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9.    Into the White Cube\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Mountain of Truth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Be Smart – Take Part\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e German Issues\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Island of Posthistoire\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Trouble with Duchamp\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 10.  Prussianism and Spontaneism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e War in the Time of Total Peace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Machiavelli in Westphalia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Wild Academy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In Search of the Punctum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jacob Taubes’s Best Enemy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 11.  Disco Dispositive\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tyrannies of Intimacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pub Blather\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Art of Having a Beer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the Jungle\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Above the Clouds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: After Theory? 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