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All power to the imagination! : the West German counterculture from the student movement to the Greens

Author: Sabine Von Dirke
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©1997.
Series: Modern German culture and literature.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"All Power to the Imagination!" is a history of the West German counterculture and its immensely influential role in the nation's cultural and political life. Sabine von Dirke opens with an examination of nascent countercultural movements in West Germany during the 1950s. She then moves to a nuanced account of the student movement of the 1960s, describing its adaptation of the theories of Marcuse, Adorno, and  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Von Dirke, Sabine, 1960-
All power to the imagination!
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c1997
(OCoLC)654245099
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sabine Von Dirke
ISBN: 0803246633 9780803246638
OCLC Number: 34677253
Description: 270 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Culture and Hegemony --
1. Cultural Hegemony and Youth Subcultures in the 1950s --
2. "All Power to the Imagination!" The Student Movement of the 1960s --
3. Post-1968 Blues: Spontis, Violence, and New Subjectivity --
4. "Objectivity? No, Thank You!" New Subjectivity from Tunix to taz --
5. "Do It Yourself!" Artistic Concepts and Practices of the Alternative Culture --
6. Between Politics and Ecology: Green Ideas on Art and Culture --
Conclusion: As the Story Ends.
Series Title: Modern German culture and literature.
Responsibility: Sabine von Dirke.
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"All Power to the Imagination!" is a history of the West German counterculture and its immensely influential role in the nation's cultural and political life. Sabine von Dirke opens with an examination of nascent countercultural movements in West Germany during the 1950s. She then moves to a nuanced account of the student movement of the 1960s, describing its adaptation of the theories of Marcuse, Adorno, and Benjamin, then recounting its attack on "bourgeois" notions of the autonomy of art and culture. She next examines the subsequent development of a radical aesthetic and the effects of left-wing terrorism on Germany's political climate. Later chapters focus on die tageszeitung, the ecology movement, and the rise of the Green Party. Von Dirke concludes by asking whether the evolution that this book traces - from Marxist-influenced critiques of culture and society to more diverse, less doctrinaire left-wing positions - represents progress or a betrayal of radical ideals.

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