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Political epistemics : the secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism /
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 Germanys unexpected self-dissolution in 1989. His analysis builds on extensive in-depth...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Understandings, politics, and institutions
- Socialism as a self-fulfilling prophecy : the party's project. From Marx to conscious social transformation ; Aporias of producing right consciousness
- Contingencies and dynamics of understanding : the theory. Constituting understandings through validations ; Dialectics in spaces of validation
- Becoming socialist men : the Stasi officers. Guardians of the party state ; Stasi culture : authority, networks, and discourses
- Disenchantment, disengagement, opposition : the dissidents. When someone's Eden becomes another's purgatory ; Forming groups, organizing opposition
- Policing understandings : reproducing misunderstandings. Attempting to know and control the opposition
- Paralyzing uncertainties.