Historically, the printed word is arguably the single most important infrastructure for activist politics. The essays gathered in this volume explore crucial examples of activist writing in sociological, historical, and literary-theoretical perspective. Together, they show that manifestos, pamphlets, open letters, and polemical speeches have left a significant imprint on the political fabric of Modernity. As a political practice, pamphleteering has continually remoulded available forms of democratic participation, thus fundamentally shaping contemporary concepts of activism.

With contributions by David Bebnowski, Dustin Breitenwischer, Sakina Shakil Gröppmaier, Laura Handl / Carsten Junker, Pierre-Héli Monot, Stefanie Kremmel, Nils C. Kumkar, Juliane Prade-Weiss / Vladimir Petrović, Florian Sedlmeier, Christoph Streb, and Daphne Weber.