LEADER 02916nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910459072003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8047-7248-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804772488 035 $a(CKB)2670000000014946 035 $a(EBL)515318 035 $a(OCoLC)609863161 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000365888 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11257983 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000365888 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10403194 035 $a(PQKB)11589708 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127808 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC515318 035 $a(DE-B1597)564530 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804772488 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL515318 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10377963 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930480 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000014946 100 $a20090227d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe skin of the system$b[electronic resource] $eon Germany's socialist modernity /$fBenjamin Robinson 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (369 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-6247-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [327]-343) and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aThe 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 Fu?hmann, the East German who most single-mindedly dedicated himself to understanding what it 606 $aSocialism and literature$zGermany (East) 606 $aSocialism$zGermany (East) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocialism and literature 615 0$aSocialism 676 $a838/.91409 700 $aRobinson$b Benjamin$f1962-$01044323 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459072003321 996 $aThe skin of the system$92469910 997 $aUNINA