Time to Come Clean

1977 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-36
Author(s):  
Jürgen Fuchs
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
The State ◽  
Skilled Worker ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
East German ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

The text passages below are from an unpublished book by the East Berlin writer Jürgen Fuchs. Fuchs, born in 1950, belongs to the circle of Wolf Biermann and Robert Havemann. He left school in 1969 and was trained as a skilled worker on the East German Railways. After his service with the National People's Army he studied social psychology in Jena. His writings first appeared in collections and periodicals in 1973. In April 1975, after a public reading of some of his works, he was expelled from the Party, expelled from the University a few days before the conclusion of his course, and branded a ‘counter-revolutionary’ and ‘slanderer of the State’. On 19 November 1976, having signed a letter of protest against Biermann's expatriation, he was arrested. The passages below, from Fuchs' book Aide-Memoire, were published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in November 1976.

A Science So-Called

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-55
Author(s):  
Megan Faragher
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Film Adaptation ◽  
Inherent Difficulty ◽  
Group Psychology ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University ◽  
The Universe

H.G. Wells’s life extends the radical evolution of psychographics outlined in the Introduction, but his oeuvre also proves the inherent difficulty in aestheticizing the emergent age of social psychology—a point evinced when producer Alexander Korda demanded Wells revise the script version of his 1933 novel The Shape of Things to Come three times to make it “filmable.” While Wells’s novel imagines a peaceable future wherein social psychology becomes the “whole literature, philosophy, and general thought of the world,” the film adaptation instead symbolizes this philosophical transformation by starring a sole philosopher-king who, against the people’s will, seeks to control and colonize the universe. This chapter argues that the conflict between these two Wellsian visions is prefigured by his intimate and conflicted relationship to sociology and group psychology. As early as 1906, Wells sought out the position as the first British chair of sociology at the University of London. But Wells was immediately to become a gadfly in academia: he engaged in scathing critiques of sociology for denying its utopian impulses and refuted theories of group dynamics put forward by Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter. Incorporating readings across Wells’s literary career—including Anticipations, An Englishman Looks at the World, and In the Days of the Comet—this chapter contends that Wells’s writing captures a life-long effort to reprise the scope of sociology from outside academia, and captures the writer’s foundering efforts to aestheticize the institutional promise of social psychology—efforts that inevitably succumb to Wells’s fetishization of pseudo-authoritarian technocracy.

The Buildup to Detonation in 1968

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Demshuk
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
German History ◽  
The Public ◽  
East German ◽  
The University

The final progression toward demolishing the University Church in 1968 reveals a regime that not only veiled the whole affair in secrecy, but strove to more effectively terrify and divide its opponents through vain promises and active intimidation. But the State had underestimated public resilience. Using a lively and diverse series of protest letters, interview transcripts, and on-site accounts, the coming pages exhibit how pending demolition of Leipzig’s University Church prompted the largest case of unrest in East German history between the 1953 Uprising and 1989 Revolution. Fear of the public ultimately prompted frantic preparations toward demolition in mere days, leading to even greater trauma and loss.

An Enduring Enchantment: The Fairy Tale in the DDR, from the Brothers Grimm to 'the Singing Ringing Tree'

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (16) ◽  
pp. 62-102
Author(s):  
John Callow
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
The State ◽  
Brothers Grimm ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
East German ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Creative Partnership

The Marchen/Fairy Tale films produced by the state DEFA studio in East Berlin have proved to be among the DDR's most enduring cultural achievements. This article examines at the ways in which the works of the Brothers Grimm were brought within an explicitly socialist pedagogy and how official Marxism attempt to comprehend and refashion folk and fairy tales. It is argued that this was most surely accomplished through the creative partnership of Anne Geelhaar, an East German writer, and Francesco Stefani, a West German director. Their creation, in 1957, of the apparently timeless but in reality entirely new tale of 'The Singing Ringing Tree' – despite an element of official opposition – has enjoyed enduring popular success and, through its inclusion within the BBC's 'Tales from Europe' managed to circumvent and transcend the suspicions and stereotypes fostered by the Cold War.

Cooperative Empires: Provincial Initiatives in Imperial Austria

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 128-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jana Osterkamp ◽  
Jaime Hyland
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Foreign Workers ◽  
East Berlin ◽  
Soviet Empire ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Jazz Music ◽  
East German ◽  
To Come ◽  
Divide And Rule

The title “Cooperative Empires” may seem contradictory—or even provocative—to many historians of empire. It is widely believed that one of the defining characteristics of an empire is the presence of little or no cooperation among its individual provinces. More than that: there is a deliberate separation between the provinces that can go so far as to become a prohibition against cooperation. In theory, at least, each province must communicate with the imperial center, but not with other provinces. This contradiction between empire and cooperation is neatly illustrated by a true family story. The story is set in the 1970s in Prague, on the western edge of that space that historians today describe as the Soviet Empire. My mother, an East German from East Berlin, was then working as an interpreter in Prague. She was sitting on the tram on the way to visit some Czech friends who shared her love of jazz music. A queasy feeling began to come over her as she recalled that she was in fact forbidden to visit Czech friends, precisely because she was working in the German Democratic Republic's (GDR) embassy in Prague. It suited both the Soviet Union and the GDR that their foreign workers should not come into private contact with other nationalities, even if they belonged to allied fraternal countries. This was a sort of socialist version of the “divide and rule” principle as it was practiced in the nineteenth century.

scholarly journals The University of Naples and the Organisation of Official Culture = La Universidad de Nápoles y la organización de la cultura oficial

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 79
Author(s):  
Fulvio Delle Donne
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Imperial Authority ◽  
The World ◽  
Circular Letter ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

Abstract: The emperor Frederick II of Hohenstaufen created the University of Naples in 1224, but we do not have the foundation charter; we have only a circular letter in which he invites students to come to Naples. We do not know, in fact, if there was a formal institutional act or if certain statutes or decrees were issued. In any case, the circular letter of invitation is particularly important for two reasons. The first is that Frederick declares in an absolutely new way that culture generates riches and nobility. The second is that the circular letter is transmitted from the collection of epistles attributed to Petrus de Vinea, the protonotary, head of the imperial chancery. The epistles attributed to Petrus de Vinea were a formidable instrument of propaganda not only because of their vigorously effective ideological content, but also because of their extraordinary style. This style was an impressive “symbol of power” demonstrating to the world Frederick’s renewed imperial authority. At the same time, the University of Naples was able to provide monarchs with a wide choice of people of excellent education, essential for the administration of the state, which was being organized more and more centrally.Keywords: University of Naples, Frederick II of de Hohenstaufen, Petrus de Vinea, medieval epistolography, ars dictaminis.Resumen: El emperador Frederick II de Hohenstaufen creó la Universidad de Nápoles en 1224, pero no tenemos el documento fundacional; sólo conservamos una misiva en la que se invita a los estudiantes a ir a Nápoles. No sabemos, de hecho, si hubo un acto institucional o si determinados estatutos o decretos fueron establecidos. En cualquier caso, la carta de invitación es particularmente importante por dos razones. La primera es que Frederick declaró, de forma novedosa, que la cultura generaba riqueza y nobleza. La segunda es que la circular se transmitió desde la colección de epístolas atribuidas a Petrus de Vinea, el protonotario, cabeza de la cancillería imperial. Estas epístolas fueron formidables instrumentos de propaganda no sólo por su vigoroso contenido ideológico, sino también por su extraordinario estilo. Este estilo fue un impresionante “símbolo de poder” que mostró al mundo la renovada autoridad imperial de Frederick. Al mismo tiempo, la Universidad de Nápoles pudo proveer a la monarquía con un amplio abanico de personas de excelente educación, esencial para la administración del estado, que fue administrándose cada vez de manera más centralizada.Palabras clave: Universidad de Montpellier, medicina, profesiones médicas, herejía, traducciones árabes, Edad Media.

Some aspects of the idea of unity V. Solovyov and the present

2000 ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
O. O. Romanovsky
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
National Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Place Of Residence ◽  
The Government ◽  
The University ◽  
Temporary Closure

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the nature of the national policy of Russia is significantly changing. After the events of 1863 in Poland (the Second Polish uprising), the government of Alexander II gradually abandoned the dominant idea of ​​anathematizing, whose essence is expressed in the domination of the principle of serving the state, the greatness of the empire. The tsar-reformer deliberately changes the policy of etatamism into the policy of state ethnocentrism. The manifestation of such a change is a ban on teaching in Polish (1869) and the temporary closure of the University of Warsaw. At the end of the 60s, the state's policy towards a five million Russian Jewry was radically revised. The process of abolition of restrictions on travel, education, place of residence initiated by Nicholas I, was provided reverse.

The Open Society and the Democracy to Come: Bergson, Deleuze and Guattari

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Baugh
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
The State ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Minor Literature ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
The People ◽  
To Come ◽  
Polar Opposite ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Gain Access

In Bergsonism, Deleuze refers to Bergson's concept of an ‘open society’, which would be a ‘society of creators’ who gain access to the ‘open creative totality’ through acting and creating. Deleuze and Guattari's political philosophy is oriented toward the goal of such an open society. This would be a democracy, but not in the sense of the rule of the actually existing people, but the rule of ‘the people to come,’ for in the actually existing situation, such a people is ‘lacking’. When the people becomes a society of creators, the result is a society open to the future, creativity and the new. Their openness and creative freedom is the polar opposite of the conformism and ‘herd mentality’ condemned by Deleuze and Nietzsche, a mentality which is the basis of all narrow nationalisms (of ethnicity, race, religion and creed). It is the freedom of creating and commanding, not the Kantian freedom to obey Reason and the State. This paper uses Bergson's The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, and Deleuze and Guattari's Kafka: For a Minor Literature, A Thousand Plateaus and What is Philosophy? to sketch Deleuze and Guattari's conception of the open society and of a democracy that remains ‘to come’.

Brothers in Arms: The Role of Broederbond Rectors in the Exercise of Hegemony at the University of Fort Hare, 1960–1981

Politeia ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Black Students ◽  
The State ◽  
University Administration ◽  
Independent States ◽  
University Of Fort Hare ◽  
The University

As members of the secret Afrikaner organisation, the Broederbond, two of the apartheid-era rectors at the University of Fort Hare were responsible for leading an institution that was supposed to spearhead the modernisation of ethnically defined homelands and their transition to independent states, whilst disseminating apartheid values among the black students. Based on unsorted and unarchived documents located in the personal files of the apartheid-era rectors, which included secret correspondence and memoranda of clandestine meetings, this paper illustrates the attempted exercise of hegemony by the apartheid state through its linked network with the university administration during the period 1960 to 1990. This is achieved by demonstrating the interaction between the state, Broederbond rectors and the black students at Fort Hare, who were subjected to persuasion and coercion as dictated by the state’s apartheid vision of a racially defined and separated society.

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