Lost unicorns of the velvet revolutions : heterotopias of the seminar / Miglena Nikolchina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nikolchina, Miglena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communism--Europe--History--20th century.

Communism.

Communism and intellectuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the eastern European seminar of the late 1980s and early 1990s--an ongoing academic meeting place outside the formal rubric of the university--tracing its evolution into a social movement on the street and identifying the political force of the theoretical conversations that took place there. It also shows how these theories reflect the loss of socialist idealisms and established materialist frameworks that eventually evolved into a set of heterotopic visions with a fundamentally altered sense of materialism. It provides both glimpses of a genuinely alternative world to the Western academy that its denizens are so prone to critique, one in which oral discourse and dialogism were especially prominent values, and a utopian view of the Western intellectual world from that now-lost space.

Contents:

Introduction

The seminar : mode demploi : impure spaces in the light of late totalitarianism

The west as intellectual utopia

Between irony and revolution : sexual difference and the case of Aufhebung

An unfinished project : man as comedy

Addendum : the discretions of inverted theory

Notes

Works cited

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4636-1

0-8232-4302-8

OCLC:

818413943