The Skin of the System. On Germany's Socialist Modernity.
Benjamin Robinson
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Hardback. Focuses on what made historical socialism different from social systems in the West. This title presents a study that elicits the general question: what must we think in order to think an other system at all? Num Pages: 368 pages, 3 figures, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; 3JJ; JPFF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 612.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804762472
SKU
V9780804762472
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About Benjamin Robinson
Benjamin Robinson is Assistant Professor of German and a founding member of the Center for the Theory of Interpretation at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Reviews for The Skin of the System. On Germany's Socialist Modernity.
"Given its high academic quality, I have no doubt that Other Systems will be widely read and discussed. Robinson's achievement in this book is twofold: he provides wonderful new readings of Fühmann's work structured around his personal doubt about the existence of socialism, and he situates these readings within a broader intellectual and historical context, showing that Fühmann's doubts were ... Read more