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Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968
Ideas in Flux
Series: - Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics, Volume: 71
- Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics Online, Volume: 71
Between the Thaw and the Prague Spring, Socialist Europe experienced a brief yet intense period of intellectual ferment. Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968 explores the shifting landscape of literature, philosophy, literary theory, and political thought in the wake of Stalinism and on the cusp of postmodernism. Bridging cultural analysis and intellectual history, this volume offers fresh insights into a period that shaped Socialist Europe for decades.
Aleksandra Konarzewska is a literary scholar and a historian of ideas of Eastern and Central Europe. She is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen (Germany).
Una BlagojeviÄ is an intellectual historian interested in the social, cultural, and gender histories of East Central Europe. She earned her PhD at the Department of Historical Studies, Central European University. Currently, she is a research assistant at the BabeÈ-Bolyai University (Romania).
Natalia Borisova is a literary scholar with special interests in ninetieth- and twentieth-century literature (Leo Tolstoy, Russian realism, history of feelings, literature and economy). She teaches at Slavic Department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen (Germany).
Una BlagojeviÄ is an intellectual historian interested in the social, cultural, and gender histories of East Central Europe. She earned her PhD at the Department of Historical Studies, Central European University. Currently, she is a research assistant at the BabeÈ-Bolyai University (Romania).
Natalia Borisova is a literary scholar with special interests in ninetieth- and twentieth-century literature (Leo Tolstoy, Russian realism, history of feelings, literature and economy). She teaches at Slavic Department of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Tübingen (Germany).
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Socialist Europe between 1956 and 1968 and Its Intellectual Production
âAleksandra Konarzewska and Una BlagojeviÄ
Yevgenia Ginzburg/Vasily Aksyonov: The Invention of the Recent Past
âNatalia Borisova
After Totality: Theory of the Novel and Social Thought in Poland between 1956 and 1968
âJens Herlth
Socialism with a Human Face but without Socialist Literature: Josef Å kvoreckýâs The Miracle Game
âIvana Perica
An Attempt to Reform Communism: The Relations between the Yugoslav and Italian Communists in 1956 and 1968
âBogdan ŽivkoviÄ
Between Revolution and Petrification: WÅadysÅaw BieÅkowskiâs Prospects for Socialism in Poland 1956â1968
âBartÅomiej Kapica
Adam Schaff and the Polish Debates on the Concept of Socialist Humanism
âBartosz Matyja and Monika Woźniak
The Ecological Imaginary of Socialist Cybernetics
âClemens Günther
The Crisis of Ideas: Ideological Voids and Humanist Intuitions in Mid-Socialist Poland
âNina Seiler
Index of Names
Index of Terms
Introduction: Socialist Europe between 1956 and 1968 and Its Intellectual Production
âAleksandra Konarzewska and Una BlagojeviÄ
Part 1 Literature and Literary Theory
Yevgenia Ginzburg/Vasily Aksyonov: The Invention of the Recent Past
âNatalia Borisova
After Totality: Theory of the Novel and Social Thought in Poland between 1956 and 1968
âJens Herlth
Socialism with a Human Face but without Socialist Literature: Josef Å kvoreckýâs The Miracle Game
âIvana Perica
Part 2 Clashes and Discussions
An Attempt to Reform Communism: The Relations between the Yugoslav and Italian Communists in 1956 and 1968
âBogdan ŽivkoviÄ
Between Revolution and Petrification: WÅadysÅaw BieÅkowskiâs Prospects for Socialism in Poland 1956â1968
âBartÅomiej Kapica
Adam Schaff and the Polish Debates on the Concept of Socialist Humanism
âBartosz Matyja and Monika Woźniak
Part 3 Ideological Landscapes
The Ecological Imaginary of Socialist Cybernetics
âClemens Günther
The Crisis of Ideas: Ideological Voids and Humanist Intuitions in Mid-Socialist Poland
âNina Seiler
Index of Names
Index of Terms
Scholars of intellectual history, researchers of socialism and Marxism, historians of Cold War Europe, political theorists, cultural studies scholars, academics in Eastern and Central European studies, graduate students in history and philosophy, and readers interested in ideological shifts