The Summer of Theory. Philipp Felsch

      44 44 Mercer, ‘The Paperback Revolution’, 621.

      45 45 Karl Markus Michel to Hans Blumenberg, 20 January 1965: Siegfried Unseld Archives in the German Literature Archive, Marbach.

      46 46 On the relation between minimalism and pop, and on the two Beatles covers, see Diedrich Diederichsen, ‘Psychedelische Begabungen: Minimalismus und Pop’, in Diederichsen, Kritik des Auges: Texte zur Kunst, Hamburg: Fundus, 2008, 75–105; and Walter Grasskamp, Das Cover von Sgt. Pepper: Eine Momentaufnahme der Popkultur, Berlin: Wagenbach, 2004.

      47 47 See Jan Bürger, ‘Die Stunde der Theorie’, in Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, 6:4 (2012), 5–10.

      48 48 Jacob Taubes to Karl Markus Michel, 26 August 1965: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      49 49 ‘Jacob Taubes’, 305. See also Morten Paul, ‘Vor der Theorie: Jacob Taubes als Verlagsberater’, in Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte, 6:4 (2012), 29–34.

      50 50 Jacob Taubes to Karl Markus Michel, 30 November 1965: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      51 51 Jacob Taubes to Karl Markus Michel, 26 August 1965.

      52 52 Dieter Henrich to Siegfried Unseld, 17 June 1964: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      53 53 Jacob Taubes to Siegfried Unseld, 4 November 1963: Siegfried Unseld Archives. On Taubes’s prior activities in publishing, see Behrmann, ‘Die Theorie, das Institut, die Zeitschrift und das Buch’, 265; Treml, ‘Paulinische Feindschaft’, 290f.

      54 54 See Karl Markus Michel to Éditions François Maspero, 30 June 1966: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      55 55 Jacob Taubes to Siegfried Unseld, 5 May 1964: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      56 56 Adorno, ‘The Essay as Form’, 9. On the history of the genre in West Germany, see Georg Stanitzek, Essay: BRD, Berlin: Vorwerk, 2011, 8. The pop-culture magazine Spex later added another item to the negative definitions of theory: Gegen die Uni studieren [Studying against the uni] was the theme of its issue 17:5 (1996), 44–55.

      57 57 Karl Markus Michel to Jacob Taubes, 19 August 1965: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      58 58 On the distinction between ‘old’ and ‘new’ culture, which also corresponds to the difference between hardcover books and paperbacks, see Bohrer, ‘The Three Cultures’.

      59 59 Jacob Taubes to Siegfried Unseld, 20 April 1965: Siegfried Unseld Archives. ‘Suhrkamp is extremely sceptical of academic philosophy (for good reason, in some cases)’, Taubes wrote to Blumenberg on 10 August 1964, ‘and therefore I can propose only the best – not commodities’: Hans Blumenberg and Jacob Taubes, Briefwechsel 1961–1981 und weitere Materialien, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2013, 37.

      60 60 Karl Markus Michel, ‘Aktennotiz für Siegfried Unseld: Resume der Gespräche mit Jacob Taubes am 30./31. Juli in Berlin’: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      61 61 Karl Markus Michel to Siegfried Unseld, 1 April 1966: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      62 62 Dieter Henrich to Siegfried Unseld, 17 June 1964: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      63 63 Karl Markus Michel to Siegfried Unseld, 1 April 1966: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      64 64 Jacob Taubes to Siegfried Unseld, 6 April 1965: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      65 65 Was he thinking of the essayist Adorno? On the mutual disregard of Blumenberg and Adorno, see Christian Voller, ‘Kommunikation verweigert: Schwierige Beziehungen zwischen Blumenberg und Adorno’, in Zeitschrift für Kulturphilosophie, 7:2 (2013), 381–405.

      66 66 Hans Blumenberg to Karl Markus Michel, 21 April 1965: Siegfried Unseld Archives. In the end, however, he yielded to Unseld’s efforts. Less than a year later, there is a mention of the 12,000 Deutschmarks he received for The Legitimacy of the Modern Age. Siegfried Unseld to Hans Blumenberg, 14 February 1966: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      67 67 Jacob Taubes to Siegfried Unseld, 2 February 1965: Siegfried Unseld archives.

      68 68 Jacob Taubes to Karl Markus Michel, 29 and 30 November 1965: Siegfried Unseld archives.

      69 69 The same can be said of the critical America expert Adorno, who wrote after his return to Germany that his sojourn in the US had given him ‘the capacity to see culture from the outside’: ‘Scientific Experiences of a European Scholar in America’, trans. Donald Fleming, in The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930–1960, ed. Donald Fleming and Bernard Bailyn, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1969, 367.

      70 70 Taubes, Ad Carl Schmitt, 49.

      71 71 Jacob Taubes to Siegfried Unseld, 5 May 1964: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      72 72 Karl Markus Michel to Siegfried Unseld, 1 April 1966: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      73 73 Jacob Taubes to Karl Markus Michel, 14 June 1966: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      74 74 Jacob Taubes to Karl Markus Michel, 21 September 1966: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      75 75 Karl Markus Michel to Siegfried Unseld, 1 April 1966: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      76 76 Karl Markus Michel to Jacob Taubes, 13 June 1966. Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      77 77 Karl Markus Michel to Karel Kosík, 9 November 1966: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      78 78 Jacob Taubes to Karl Markus Michel, 20 April and 12 August 1965: Siegfried Unseld Archives.

      79 79 Bude, ‘Die Suche nach dem Unmöglichen’, 224ff. The ‘Battle of Tegeler Weg’ is the name given to the bloody confrontation between parts of the Berlin protest movement and the Berlin police on 4 November 1968.

      80 80 J. W. Stalin, Marxismus und Fragen der Sprachwissenschaft, Munich: Rogner & Bernhard, 1968. The editor Hans-Peter Gente gave the book a brief introduction.

      81 81 Quoted in Lowien, Weibliche Produktivkraft, 146ff.

      82 82 Ibid., 40f.