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- Lost Unicorns of the Velvet Revolutions:Heterotopias of the Seminar: Heterotopias of the Seminar
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Fordham University Press
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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. 1-11
- 2 The West as Intellectual Utopia
- pp. 43-68
- 4 An Unfinished Project: Man as Comedy
- pp. 88-108
- Addendum: The Discretions of Inverted Theory
- pp. 109-125
- Works Cited
- pp. 149-161
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823246366
Related ISBN(s)
9780823242993
MARC Record
OCLC
830023879
Pages
184
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No