The Ruin Dwellers
Progress and Its Discontents in the West German Counterculture
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The Ruin Dwellers
Progress and Its Discontents in the West German Counterculture
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Allure of Progress in Postwar Germany
2. The Countercultural “Off-Modern”
3. The Youth Revolts of 1980–81 and the Radical Potential of the Present
4. Perpetual Motion: Ritualization and Rebirth in the 1980s
5. Insurgent Dwelling and the Cultivation of Place in Hamburg’s Hafenstraße
6. Carnival Time and Creative Destruction in the New Berlin
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
1. The Allure of Progress in Postwar Germany
2. The Countercultural “Off-Modern”
3. The Youth Revolts of 1980–81 and the Radical Potential of the Present
4. Perpetual Motion: Ritualization and Rebirth in the 1980s
5. Insurgent Dwelling and the Cultivation of Place in Hamburg’s Hafenstraße
6. Carnival Time and Creative Destruction in the New Berlin
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index