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Lost Unicorns of the Velvet Revolutions: Heterotopias of the Seminar

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Description for Lost Unicorns of the Velvet Revolutions: Heterotopias of the Seminar Paperback. The book examines the role that theoretical thinking and intellectual discussion played in preparing the downfall of communism. Drawing on the impact of various 20th century thinkers it revisits debates on the end of history, utopia, and man, as well as controversies over gender and the political implications of theory. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 1DV; 3JJPN; 3JJPR; HBJD; HBLW3; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 13. Weight in Grams: 261.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823243006
SKU
V9780823243006
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About Miglena Nikolchina
Miglena Nikolchina is Chair of the Department of Theory of Literature, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria. Her publications in English include Matricide in Language: Writing Theory in Kristeva and Woolf.

Reviews for Lost Unicorns of the Velvet Revolutions: Heterotopias of the Seminar
"Each chapter is beautifully written, thoughtful, ironic, trenchant, and simply interesting."
-Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley "In short, this is a book that is both deeply original and an important contribution to work in the field; a book that is accessible to an interdisciplinary audience and of remarkable theoretical and scholarly sophistication."
-Elizabeth Weed Brown University "Nikolchina ... Read more

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