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Book SynopsisThere was always a promise of liberation in pop. But his anti-hierarchical moment was counteracted by his loudest advocates in the Federal Republic of the 80s. At that time, authors such as Diedrich Diederichsen, Rainald Goetz or Thomas Meinecke developed the pop-intellectual, performative discourse form of Sophistication, which juggled allusion with exquisite educational fruits from high and popular culture. Their witty combination of criticism and aesthetics was at the same time a proven elitistic means of narcissistic distinction. As a self-staging technique that relied on the weapons of taste, as the first fundamental analysis of this form of communication shows, it was closer to the exclusionist bourgeois habit of sophistication and the intellectual aristocratic attitude of some conservative revolutionaries of the interwar period than their representatives, who like to take on the politically progressive side, were closer On the rubble of the bourgeois cultural canons, which were attacked by the countercultures of the 1960s and 1970s, the new educated bourgeoisie of pop did not build comprehensive schools, but private boarding schools for those taste elites who could afford the school fees to be paid in the form of pop intellectual knowledge capital.
