02879nam 2200601 a 450 991081442160332120240506075312.00-8047-7248-710.1515/9780804772488(CKB)2670000000014946(EBL)515318(OCoLC)609863161(SSID)ssj0000365888(PQKBManifestationID)11257983(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000365888(PQKBWorkID)10403194(PQKB)11589708(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127808(MiAaPQ)EBC515318(DE-B1597)564530(DE-B1597)9780804772488(Au-PeEL)EBL515318(CaPaEBR)ebr10377963(OCoLC)1198930480(EXLCZ)99267000000001494620090227d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe skin of the system on Germany's socialist modernity /Benjamin Robinson1st ed.Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press20091 online resource (369 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8047-6247-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-343) and index.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.The Skin of the System 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, Robinson turns to the remarkable writer Franz Fühmann, the East German who most single-mindedly dedicated himself to understanding what it Socialism and literatureGermany (East)SocialismGermany (East)Socialism and literatureSocialism838/.91409Robinson Benjamin1962-1709600MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814421603321The skin of the system4099455UNINA