Format:
1 online resource (369 pages)
ISBN:
9780804772488
Content:
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 means to transform from fascism to socialism. Fühmann's own serial loyalties to Hitler and Stalin inform his existential meditations on change and difference. By placing Fühmann's politically alert and intensely personal literary inventions in the context of an inquiry into radical social rupture, The Skin of the System wrests the brutal materiality of twentieth-century socialism from attempts to provincialize both its desires and its failures as antimodern ideological follies.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Socialist Vacation -- Part I: Between Not Yet and No Longer -- 1. Utopia and Actuality: What Is to Be Done with Really Existing Socialism? -- 2. Other Systems: Mud, Mana, Money -- 3. The Skin of the System and the DIN of the System: A Poetics of Sovereignity and System -- Part II: Plurality and the Optimum Optimorum -- 4. Diabolical Transformations: A Necessary Comrade -- 5. Tertium non Datur: The Systems Erotics of Socialism -- 6. Camps, Laws, and Plans: The Socialist Camp -- 7. Revolutionary Laws: Emergence and Emergency -- 8. Plans, Leaps, Heaps: The Measure of the Human -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780804762472
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780804762472
Language:
English
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