Intellectual Production in Socialist Europe 1956-1968 : Ideas in Flux /

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 an...

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Other Authors: Blagojević, Una (Editor), Borisova, Natalia (Editor), Konarzewska, Aleksandra (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.
Studies in Slavic Literature and Poetics ; 71.

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Call Number: D410

Table of Contents:
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Socialist Europe between 1956 and 1968 and Its Intellectual Production
  • Aleksandra Konarzewska and Una Blagojević
  • Part 1 Literature and Literary Theory
  • Yevgenia Ginzburg/Vasily Aksyonov: The Invention of the Recent Past
  • Natalia Borisova
  • After Totality: Theory of the Novel and Social Thought in Poland between 1956 and 1968
  • Jens Herlth
  • Socialism with a Human Face but without Socialist Literature: Josef Škvorecký's The Miracle Game
  • Ivana Perica
  • Part 2 Clashes and Discussions
  • An Attempt to Reform Communism: The Relations between the Yugoslav and Italian Communists in 1956 and 1968
  • Bogdan Živković
  • Between Revolution and Petrification: Władysław Bieńkowski's Prospects for Socialism in Poland 1956-1968
  • Bartłomiej Kapica
  • Adam Schaff and the Polish Debates on the Concept of Socialist Humanism
  • Bartosz Matyja and Monika Woźniak
  • Part 3 Ideological Landscapes
  • The Ecological Imaginary of Socialist Cybernetics
  • Clemens Günther
  • The Crisis of Ideas: Ideological Voids and Humanist Intuitions in Mid-Socialist Poland
  • Nina Seiler
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Terms.