Philipp Felsch - The Summer of Theory

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2 Title Page The Summer of Theory History of a Rebellion, 1960–1990 PHILIPP FELSCH Translated by Tony Crawford polity

3 Copyright Page

4 Dedication

5 Illustrations

6 Acknowledgements

7 Introduction: What Was Theory? Notes

8 1965 The Hour of Theory

9 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? Notes

10 2 In the Suhrkamp Culture New Leftists He Didn’t Write School of Hard Books Paperback Theory Birth of a Genre Notes

11 1970 Endless Discussions

12 3 Ill-Made Books Theoretical Practice Smash Bourgeois Copyright! Mondays, Fridays and Sundays The Disorder of Discourse Notes

13 4 Wolfsburg Empire Proletarian Public Sphere In the Land of Class Struggle The Lightness of Being Communist A Fateful Stroke of Luck Notes

14 1977 Reading French in the German Autumn

15 5 (Possible) Reasons for the Happiness of Thought All Kinds of Escapes Intensity Is Not a Feeling The Laugh of Merve Vague Thinkers Notes

16 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 Notes

17 7 Foucault and the Terrorists A Schweppes in Paris Political Tourists Vermin On Tunix Beach Notes

18 1984 The End of History

19 8 Critique of Pure Text The Master Thinkers Adults Only Sola Scriptura Aesthetics of Counter-Enlightenment A Little Materialism Notes

20 9 Into the White Cube The Mountain of Truth Be Smart – Take Part German Issues The Island of Posthistoire The Trouble with Duchamp Notes

21 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 Notes

22 11 Disco Dispositive Tyrannies of Intimacy Pub Blather The Art of Having a Beer In the Jungle Above the Clouds Notes

23 Epilogue: After Theory? Notes

24 Appendix: Translations of Illustrations

25 Bibliography Archives Author’s Interviews and Conversations Audio and Video Recordings Literature

26 Index

27 End User License Agreement

1 Introduction 2Heidi Paris and Peter Gente, West Berlin, around 1980.

2 Chapter 1 3Peter Gente goes to the cinema, 1956. 4Layers of time in Berlin: ‘Trümmerfrauen’ clearing away the...

3 Chapter 2 5Louis Althusser, Für Marx , Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1968.

4 Chapter 3 6Charles Bettelheim, Über das Fortbestehen von Warenverhältnisse...

5 Chapter 4 7Oskar Negt and Alexander Kluge, Öffentlichkeit und Erfahrung [P...

6 Chapter 5 8Jean-François Lyotard, Das Patchwork der Minderheiten [The patchwo...

7 Chapter 6 9Pages 6 and 7 of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus , ... 10Peter Gente (second from left) reading Mille plateaux by Gilles Deleuze a...

8 Chapter 7 11Michel Foucault in West Berlin, Güntzelstrasse, Pension Finck, 1978. 12Michel Foucault and Heidi Paris at the Tunix Conference, Berlin, 1978. 13Michel Foucault and Peter Gente at the Tunix Conference, Berlin, 1978.

9 Chapter 8 14 Traverses: Revue trimestrielle , 32 (1984).

10 Chapter 9 15Architectural misunderstandings would like to become a book: Martin Kippenberger... 16The site of Berlin’s former central railway station, Anhalter Bahnhof, 19...

11 Chapter 10 17Endpapers of Ernst Jünger, Auf den Marmorklippen , Hamburg: Hanseat... 18The Wild Academy at the buffet, Kassel, 1984.

12 Chapter 11 19Dirk Baecker proposes Luhmann’s interviews to Merve. 20In the original Dschungel at Winterfeldplatz, 1976.

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