Communist Ghosts: Post-Communist Thresholds, Critical Aesthetics and the Undoing of Modern Europe

by Magda Schmukalla

Book Overview

This book explores post-communist thresholds as materializations of a specific crisis of modern European identity that was caused by the existence and sudden breakdown of Soviet-type communism. It shows how post-communist thresholds emerge where relics from the communist experience continue disrupting the routines and rhythms of a modern life and confront Europeans with cultural experiences, affects and material realities of the 'enlightened world'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030837327
• ISBN13: 9783030837327
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"