The Ruin Dwellers: Progress and Its Discontents in the West German Counterculture

Author/Contributor(s):	Smith, Jake P
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	09/03/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"The Ruin Dwellers takes readers into the urban spaces of youth revolts during the 1970s and 1980s in West Germany and elsewhere in western and central Europe. Whereas earlier generations of leftist activists were primarily toward the utopian future, participants in the youth movements of the 1970s and '80s developed a more complex set of temporal practices that sought to scramble the borders between the past, present, and future."--