Political Epistemics : The Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism /

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What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating historical case: socialist East Germany's unexpected self-dissolution in 1989. His analysis builds on extensive in-...

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Autor principal: Glaeser, Andreas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2011]
Colección:Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
Temas:
Socialism > Europe, Eastern.
Socialism > Germany (East).
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
secret police, east germany, socialism, dissolution, politics, government, dissidents, political prisoners, revolution, resistance, protest, military, mass communication, group formation, stasi, rebellion, right consciousness, marx, party state, totalitarianism, opposition, nonfiction, history, men, masculinity, manhood, citizen, subject, authority, networks, discourse, disenchantment, disengagement, ideology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Understandings, Politics, and Institutions
  • I. Socialism as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy-The Party's Project
  • Introduction
  • 1. From Marx to Conscious Social Transformation
  • 2. Aporias of Producing Right Consciousness
  • II. Contingencies and Dynamics of Understanding-The Theory
  • 3. Constituting Understandings through Validations
  • 4. Dialectics in Spaces of Validation
  • III. Becoming Socialist Men-The Stasi Officers
  • Introduction
  • 5. Guardians of the Party State
  • 6. Stasi Culture-Authority, Networks, and Discourses
  • IV. Disenchantment, Disengagement, Opposition-The Dissidents
  • 7. When Someone's Eden Becomes Another's Purgatory
  • 8. Forming Groups, Organizing Opposition
  • V. Policing Understandings-Reproducing Misunderstandings
  • 9. Attempting to Know and Control the Opposition
  • Conclusions: Paralyzing Uncertainties
  • References
  • Index

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