{"product_id":"the-german-issue-new-edition-isbn-9781584350798","title":"The German Issue, New Edition","description":"\u003cb\u003eA first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation, bridging art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe German Issue\u003c\/i\u003e (1982) was originally conceived as a follow-up to Semiotext(e)'s Autonomia\/Italy issue, published two years earlier. Although ideological terrorism was still a major issue in Germany, what ultimately emerged from these pages was an investigation of two outlaw cities, Berlin and New York, which embodied all the tensions and contradictions of the world at the time. \u003ci\u003eThe German Issue\u003c\/i\u003e is the Tale of Two Cities, then, with each city separated from its own country by an invisible wall of suspicion or even hatred. It is also the complex evocation of the rebelling youth—squatters, punks, artists and radicals, theorists and ex-terrorists—who gathered all their energy and creativity in order to outlive a hostile environment. Like a time capsule, \u003ci\u003eThe German Issue\u003c\/i\u003e brings together all the major “issues” that were being debated on both sides of the Atlantic—which eventually found their abrupt resolution in 1989 with the fall of the Berlin Wall. It involved the most important voices of the period—from writers and filmmakers to anthropologists, activists and poets, terrorists and philosophers: Joseph Beuys, Michel Foucault, Christo, Christa Wolf, Walter Abish, Alexander Kluge, Paul Virilio, Ulrilke Meinhof, William Burroughs, Jean Baudrillard, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Maurice Blanchot, Hans Jürgen Syberberg, Heidegger, André Gorz, Helke Sander. Opening with Christo's “Wrapping Up of Germany” and the celebrated dialogue between East German dramaturge Heiner Müller and Sylvère Lotringer on the Wall (“Mauer”), since published in many languages, \u003ci\u003eThe German Issue\u003c\/i\u003e offers a first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation. It also embodies at its best Semiotext(e)'s tenacious effort to establish a creative bridge between art and intellect, culture and politics, Europe and America.\u003c\/p\u003eSylvère Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSylvère Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSylvère Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFélix Guattari (1930–1992), post-'68 French psychoanalyst and philosopher, is the author of \u003ci\u003eAnti-Oedipus \u003c\/i\u003e(with Gilles Deleuze), and a number of books published by Semiotext(e), including \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-Oedipus Papers, Chaosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSoft Subversions.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJean Baudrillard (1929–2007) was a philosopher, sociologist, cultural critic, and theorist of postmodernity who challenged all existing theories of contemporary society with humor and precision. An outsider in the French intellectual establishment, he was internationally renowned as a twenty-first century visionary, reporter, and provocateur.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Kluge is an author and filmmaker, known for launching the New German Cinema in the early 1960s.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSylvère Lotringer is Jean Baudrillard Chair at the European Graduate School, Switzerland, and Professor Emeritus of French literature and philosophy at Columbia University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichel Foucault (1926–84) is widely considered to be one of the most influential academic voices of the twentieth century and has proven influential across disciplines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Virilio was born in 1932 and has published a wide range of books, essays, and interviews grappling with the question of speed and technology, including \u003ci\u003eSpeed and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Aesthetics of Disappearance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Accident of Art, \u003c\/i\u003eall published by Semiotext(e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Kluge is an author and filmmaker, known for launching the New German Cinema in the early 1960s.","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305491386597,"sku":"NP9781584350798","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781584350798.jpg?v=1767739492","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-german-issue-new-edition-isbn-9781584350798","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}