"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 Fuhmann, the East German who most single-mindedly dedicated
himself to understanding what it means to transform from fascism to
socialism. Fuhmann's own serial loyalties to Hitler and Stalin
inform his existential meditations on change and difference. By
placing Fuhmann's politically alert and intensely personal literary
inventions in the context of an inquiry into radical social
rupture, "The Skin of the System" wrests the brutal materiality of
twentieth-century socialism from attempts to provincialize both its
desires and its failures as antimodern ideological follies.
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