TY  - GEN
A1  - Wetters, Kirk
T1  - The short spring of German theory (II) : we have always been postcritical
T2  - ZfL Blog : Blog des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin
N2  - In the retrospect of almost a decade, the year 2015 seems to offer at least two openings which can help us better understand and localize the "end of theory" narratives that began to take hold sometime around the end of the millennium. Rita Felski's much-discussed and much-maligned 2015 book, "The Limits of Critique", construed the long history of "critique" as largely continuous with the more recent (postwar) idea of "theory," which allowed her to question the presupposed progressivity and utility of the dominant critical-theoretical discourses of late 20th-century North American academia. In the same year, Philipp Felsch's "Der lange Sommer der Theorie" (which was recently published in English as "The Summer of Theory") went so far as to assign specific dates, 1960–1990, and tended to define theory not as a purely academic product, but as a much wider cultural movement. Between the two books, questions of the difference between theory and critique, their specific institutional locus within and beyond academia, became objects of acute concern.
T3  - ZfL Blog : Blog des Leibniz-Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin - 07.03.2023 
KW  - Theorie
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - Kritik
KW  - Koselleck, Reinhart
KW  - Felski, Rita
KW  - Postkritik
KW  - Felsch, Philipp
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/72319
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-723191
UR  - https://www.zflprojekte.de/zfl-blog/2023/03/07/kirk-wetters-the-short-spring-of-german-theory-ii-we-have-always-been-postcritical/
SN  - 2748-5072
VL  - 2023
IS  - 07.03.2023
SP  - 1
EP  - 5
PB  - Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin
CY  - Berlin
ER  -