Foucault, Adorno, Serres: The blue-black volumes of the “Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft” series are in almost every library today. A tribute to the 50th
The gaze, which wanders over the shelves of the library, lingers on the blue-black volumes as on an authority. In the midst of the many spines, the bound new publications with the large letters or the shimmering paperbacks, the dark places occupy an almost official position. If the library were a disorderly wardrobe, with the contemporary novels as brightly colored T-shirts and the antiquarian editions as interspersed with vintage pieces, the blue-black volumes would be the dark suits, some of which, bought for an official occasion, remain tucked away untouched, but others above Become a constant companion for years, with traces of use in every fold.