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1 online resource (355 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-343) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : on socialist vacation -- Utopia and actuality : what is to be done with really existing socialism? -- Other systems : mud, mana, money -- The skin of the system and the DIN of the system : a poetics of sovereignty and system -- Diabolical transformations : a necessary comrade -- Tertium non datur : the systems erotics of socialism -- Camps, laws, and plans : the socialist camp -- Revolutionary laws : emergence and emergency -- Plans, leaps, heaps : the measure of the human -- The DIN of the system : the devil's due. |
| Summary |
This book objects to the idea that there is only one modernity - that of liberal capitalism. Starting from the simple conviction that whatever else East German socialism was, it was real, this book focuses on what made historical socialism different from social systems in the West. In this way, the study elicits the general question: what must we think in order to think an other system at all? To approach this question, the book turns to the writer Franz Fühmann, the East German who most single-mindedly dedicated himself to understanding what it means to transform from fascism to socialism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fühmann, Franz -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Fühmann, Franz. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Fuhmann, Franz -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Socialism and literature -- Germany (East)
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Socialism and literature. |
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Germany (East) |
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Socialism -- Germany (East)
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Socialism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Robinson, Benjamin, 1962- Skin of the system. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2009 (DLC) 2009007179 |
| ISBN |
9780804772488 (electronic book) |
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0804772487 (electronic book) |
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0804762473 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804762472 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804762472 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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