Title
Lost Unicorns of the Velvet Revolutions : Heterotopias of the Seminar / Miglena Nikolchina.
ISBN
9780823292097
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (184 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823292097 doi
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.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
Digital File Characteristics
text file PDF
Source of Description
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Available in Other Form
print 9780823243006
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Seminar: Mode d'emploi: Impure Spaces in the Light of Late Totalitarianism
2. The West as Intellectual Utopia
3. Between Irony and Revolution: Sexual Difference and the Case of Aufhebung
4. An Unfinished Project: Man as Comedy
Addendum: The Discretions of Inverted Theory
Notes
Works Cited
Index
