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Michael Shane Boyle
is Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. He received his PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkeley and is writing a book titled The New Spirit of Performance: Antiauthoritarian Aesthetics and the Refusal of Work in Postwar West Germany.
Hans-Jürgen Krahl: From Critical to Revolutionary Theory
Daniel Spaulding and Michael Shane Boyle September 29, 2014
Hans-Jürgen Krahl died in a car crash in 1970, at the age of twenty-seven. By that time he had weathered the rise and decline of the Socialist German Student Union (Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund, or SDS), among whose ranks he was, arguably, both the most sophisticated theorist and, after Rudi Dutschke, the most incendiary orator. The SDS had been founded shortly after World War II as the youth wing of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) of Germany. As the latter moved towards the center, however, the SDS radicalized, eventually leading to expulsion from its parent organization in 1961. It would soon become the most important student group in Germany, even as its official policy shifted further towards revolutionary Marxism.
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