Texts capturing the atmosphere of intellectual milieus

I‘m searching for texts that capture the atmosphere and mood within a specific intellectual/artistic milieu, while also tracing the theoretical trajectories of the thinkers that were associated with it.

So far these are the ones I found:

  1. The Walter Benjamin biography by Eiland
  2. Foucault biography by Eribon
  3. The years of theory by Jameson
  4. The summer of theory by Philipp Felsch
  5. Lacan biography by Roudinesco

(only available in german):

  1. Schule des Südens by Onur Erdur
  2. Sexbeat by Diederichsen

Please feel free to share some more, I would appreciate every recommendation!

Posted Oct 2, 2025, 1:54 PM UTC

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