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“... Since its appearance in Germany in 1977, Klaus Theweleit’s psychoanalytical study of fascist literature has graduated from the status of a cult work to that of a classic. Rereading it in English, a decade after my first, rather sceptical perusal, it is easy to see why. Much of what made Theweleit’s book so startlingly original in the mid-Seventies has since become relatively conventional in literary and historical studies, from the Foucaultian analysis of literary discourse, and the exploration of the political history of the human body, to a feminist perspective on sex and power ...”

“... were in fact interrelated, even co-dependent?’ In similar vein, he quotes the sociologist Klaus Theweleit: ‘It seems to me that something happens in New York (and in the “Western world”) in the early 1970s that resembles what went on in Berlin around 1930; a world empties out.’So there are doubles here. The Fassbinderrepublik circa 1977 ...”