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

"Impassioned and full of detail, this is a fascinating snapshot of the period."<br />—<i><b>Publisher's Weekly</b></i> <p>"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."<br />—<b>Sheila Fitzpatrick, <i>Australian Book Review</i></b></p> <p>"...evocative and brilliant...."<br />—<i><b>European Journal of Social Theory<br /><br /></b></i>"[A]n amazing book"<br /><i><b>Thesis Eleven</b></i></p>

<b>Philipp Felsch</b> is Professor of Cultural History at Humboldt University, Berlin.

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