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the secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism

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An edition of Political epistemics (2011)

Political epistemics

the secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism

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Political epistemics: the secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism
2011, The University of Chicago Press
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Political Epistemics: the Secret Police, the Opposition, and the End of East German Socialism
2011, University of Chicago Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-592) and index.

Published in
Chicago, London
Series
Chicago studies in practices of meaning

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
320.53/150943109048
Library of Congress
HX280.5.A6 G574 2011, HX280.5.A6G53 2010, HX280.5.A6 G53 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiii, 606 p. :
Number of pages
606

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24880286M
ISBN 10
0226297934, 0226297942
ISBN 13
9780226297934, 9780226297941
LCCN
2010015801
OCLC/WorldCat
555650382
Deutsche National Bibliothek
1019772786

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Work ID
OL15975195W

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