Cover; Half-title; Series information; Title page; Copyright information; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The Contours of the Alternative Left; Understanding the Alternative Left: Historiography and Theory; Chapter Outline and Sources; A Note on Translations; Chapter 1 Wholeness and Exuberance; 'A Rediscovery of the Body': Life Reformers and the Youth Movement; Instincts and Politics: Freudian Marxists; Artistic Critiques of Inauthentic Life; Rebellious Teenagers: Halbstarke and Gammler; Conclusion; Chapter 2 Feelings against Reason; The Critique of Rationality
Women, Children, the Insane, and Kalmyk: The Rebels against RationalityThe Politics of Subjectivity; Depoliticization and Affirmation: Critical Voices; Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Emotional Misery of Capitalism; A Regime of Fear; Damaged Personalities & Personal Relations; The Loneliness of Modern Cities; The Emotional Regime of the Left; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Searching for Intimacy; Trying Intimacy: The World of Groups; Feeling the Body; Overcoming Loneliness, Practising Intimacy; Moments of Rupture; Therapeutic Politics and Its Critics; Conclusion; Chapter 5 Exuberance and Intensity
From TUNIX to TuwatTransgressive Aesthetics; Living Intensely: Squatting and Urban Activism; Rioting; Ritualization and the End of the Revolt; Conclusion; Conclusion; Primary Sources; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Presents a fascinating account of the emotional politics and practices in the West German alternative left
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 30, 2018)
