TRIUMPH AND TRAUMA by Bernhard Giesen, S. N. Eisenstadt ( 9781594510380 )

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Title:

TRIUMPH AND TRAUMA

By:

Bernhard Giesen, S. N. Eisenstadt

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1594510385

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9781594510380

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

30 July, 2004

Pages:

208

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Examining the collective trauma of perpetrators (especially German national identity between 1945 and 2000) as well as victims, this book provides a fascinating insight into post-utopian patterns of collective identity in a globalised world.

Synopsis:

This book deals with triumphant and tragic heroes, with victims and perpetrators as archetypes of the Western imagination. A major recent change in Western societies is that memories of triumphant heroism-for example, the revolutionary uprising of the people-are increasingly replaced by the public remembrance of collective trauma of genocide, slavery and expulsion. The first part of the book deals with the heroes and victims and explores the social construction of charisma and its inevitable decay. Part 2 focuses on a paradigm case of the collective trauma of perpetrators: German national identity between 1945 and 2000. After a time of latency, the legacy of nationalistic trauma was addressed in a public conflict between generations. The conflict took center stage in vivid public debates and became a core element of Germany's official political culture. Today public confessions of the guilt of the past have spread beyond the German case. They are part of a new post-utopian pattern of collective identity in a globalised setting.

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