... fixations. At the center of the novel’s sweeping historical narrative, which takes place in the winter of 1999 but also—in flashbacks—as far back as the 1960s, is the narrator Rupert “Ratz” Kramer, the personally and professionally ne’er- do-well son of a formerly high-ranking Social...

... would be Michel Foucault, “The Discourse on Language,” trans. Rupert Swyer, appendix to The Archaeology of Knowledge, trans. A. M. Sheridan Smith (New York: Pantheon, 1972). 18 Müllerʼs Production Plays for observers in the present, so-called postcommunist era who might other- wise find...

... recommendations. This becomes clear once we turn to the name that Scheler 42. Heinrich Pesch, Teaching Guide to Economics, trans. Rupert J. Ederer, vol. 1, bk. 2 (Lewison, ME: Mellen, 2003), 254, 262. 43. Ibid., 130. 44. Max Scheler, “Soziologische Neuorientierung und die Aufgabe der deutschen...