Political epistemics
Subtitle: the secret police, the opposition, and the end of East German socialism
By: Andreas Glaeser
Series: Chicago studies in practices of meaning
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 606
ISBN-13: 9780226297934; 9780226297941
Subjects: Politics and government; Germany (East). Ministerium für Staatssicherheit; Socialism; Germany (East)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-592) and index.
Table of contents: title: Socialism as a self-fulfilling prophecy : the party's project. From Marx to conscious social transformation ; Aporias of producing right consciousness; title: Contingencies and dynamics of understanding : the theory. Constituting understandings through validations ; Dialectics in spaces of validation; title: Becoming socialist men : the Stasi officers. Guardians of the party state ; Stasi culture : authority, networks, and discourses; title: Disenchantment, disengagement, opposition : the dissidents. When someone's Eden becomes another's purgatory ; Forming groups, organizing opposition; title: Policing understandings : reproducing misunderstandings. Attempting to know and control the opposition.