Circular Validations and Modes of Understanding from Socialism to Wall Street

摘要: Did you know that the revolutions of 1989, at least one in German Democratic Republic (GDR), were bloodless because ruling party was clueless? That is what Andreas Glaeser's former Stasi interlocutors proposed as an account for socialism's peaceful end. Perhaps I should not give away conclusion's punchlines, but pleasure only to be found This charming, broadly informed and substantial volume ambitious, promising a hermeneutic insti tutionalism explains reproduction transformation social relations, actually existing socialism particular. The author offers original accounts GDR's trajectories, grounded largely biog raphies officers, informants, opposition figures along with supporting documents. He also lays out theoretical apparatus sociology understanding useful analyzing other political affairs. Glaeser already known his conse quent processualism rich ethnography. For those who enjoy some mix Latour, Giddens, Sewell, Mannheim, Mead, Wittgenstein Marx, this new vol ume will intoxicating. Those working on revolutions, movements, institutions, lan guage culture find it intriguing. Finally, challenge compara tive historical sociologists concerned dynamics. last offering especially important consider more than two decades after system's European end wave offered