The arts of democratization : styling political sensibilities in postwar West Germany
Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Jennifer M. Kapczynski and Caroline A. Kita -- Chapter 1. Imperiled Democracies: History and the Legacy of the Weimar Republic for the 21st Century -- Kathleen Canning -- Chapter 2. Intellectuals and the People: Conversation Forums an...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
2022
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
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| Schlagworte: | Democracy Political participation Electronic books Deutschland Demokratisierung Politisierung Politische Beteiligung Geschichte 1949-1960 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 268 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Jennifer M. Kapczynski and Caroline A. Kita -- Chapter 1. Imperiled Democracies: History and the Legacy of the Weimar Republic for the 21st Century -- Kathleen Canning -- Chapter 2. Intellectuals and the People: Conversation Forums and West German Democracy in the 1950s -- Sean A. Forner -- Chapter 3. Listening Towards Democracy: Axel Eggebrecht and the Postwar Radio Play -- Caroline A. Kita -- Chapter 4. Amateur Democrats -- Jennifer M. Kapczynski -- Chapter 5. No Country for Old Minds: The Psychology of West Germany's Democratization -- Anthony D. Kauders -- Chapter 6. Democratic Reeducation: Hermann Broch's Reflections on Postwar Germany -- Paul Michael L©ơtzeler -- Chapter 7. Learning to Read Again: Thomas Mann, the U.S. Army's POW Reeducation Efforts, and the Role of Literature in a Democratic Germany -- Tobias Boes -- Chapter 8. First Comes the Feeding, Then Comes the Democratization: Food, Hunger, and Democracy in the early FRG -- Alice Weinreb -- Chapter 9. Ruth Woodsmall, US Women's Affairs and Democratic Practice in the Early Federal Republic of Germany -- Darcy Buerkle -- Chapter 10. Redemptive Whiteness: Racism and Democratization, or Figurations of Germanness in 1950s West German Cinema -- Maja Figge -- Chapter 11. Foundational Narratives: West German Nation-Building Through State-Sponsored PR Films, 1953-1963 -- Jan Uelzmann -- Chapter 12. "A Memory Goes to Work": The Visual Promise of the Marshall Plan -- Frank Mehring -- . "Scholars of democracy long looked to the Federal Republic of Germany as a notable "success story," a model for how to transition from a violent, authoritarian regime to a peaceable nation of rights. Although this account has been contested since its inception, the narrative has proved resilient-and it is no surprise that the current moment of crisis that Western democracies are experiencing has provoked new interest in how democracies come to be. The Arts of Democratization: Styling Political Sensibilities in Postwar West Germany casts a fresh look at the early years of this fledgling democracy and draws attention to the broad range of ways democracy and the democratic subject were conceived and rendered at this time. These essays highlight the contradictory and competing impulses that ran through the project to democratize postwar society and cast a critical eye toward the internal biases that shaped the model of Western democracy. In so doing, the contributions probe critical questions that we continue to grapple with today. How did postwar thinkers understand what it meant to be democratic? Did they conceive of democratic subjectivity in terms of acts of participation, a set of beliefs or principles, or perhaps in terms of particular feelings or emotions? How did the work to define democracy and its subjects deploy notions of nation, race and gender or sexuality? As this book demonstrates, the case of West Germany offers compelling ways to think more broadly about the emergence of democracy. The Arts of Democratization offers lessons that resonate with the current moment as we consider what interventions may be necessary to resuscitate democracy today"-- "Scholars of democracy long looked to the Federal Republic of Germany as a notable "success story," a model for how to transition from a violent, authoritarian regime to a peaceable nation of rights. Although this account has been contested since its inception, the narrative has proved resilient-and it is no surprise that the current moment of crisis that Western democracies are experiencing has provoked new interest in how democracies come to be. The Arts of Democratization: Styling Political Sensibilities in Postwar West Germany casts a fresh look at the early years of this fledgling democracy and draws attention to the broad range of ways democracy and the democratic subject were conceived and rendered at this time. These essays highlight the contradictory and competing impulses that ran through the project to democratize postwar society and cast a critical eye toward the internal biases that shaped the model of Western democracy. In so doing, the contributions probe critical questions that we continue to grapple with today. How did postwar thinkers understand what it meant to be democratic? Did they conceive of democratic subjectivity in terms of acts of participation, a set of beliefs or principles, or perhaps in terms of particular feelings or emotions? How did the work to define democracy and its subjects deploy notions of nation, race and gender or sexuality? As this book demonstrates, the case of West Germany offers compelling ways to think more broadly about the emergence of democracy. The Arts of Democratization offers lessons that resonate with the current moment as we consider what interventions may be necessary to resuscitate democracy today. "-- |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 268 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 9780472129799 0472129791 9780472132911 0472132911 |