An emotional state : the politics of emotion in postwar West German culture

"This literary-historical study seeks to dismantle the prevailing notion that Germany, in the period following the Second World War, exhibited an 'inability to mourn,' arguing that in fact the period experienced a surge of affect. Anna Parkinson examines the emotions explicitly manife...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Parkinson, Anna M. (Auteur)
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2017
Édition:First paperback edition
Titres liés à la collection:Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Sujets:Emotions Affect (Psychology) Social psychology Deutschland Nationalbewusstsein Vergangenheitsbewältigung Gefühl Affekt Geschichte 1945-1949 Geschichte 1949-1955 plus... Soziale Situation Nachkriegszeit Kultur Geschichte 1945-1955
Description matérielle:viii, 251 Seiten
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: another country : emotions after Freud
  • Guilt : Karl Jaspers and the "German question"
  • Ressentiment : democratic sentiments and the affective structure of postwar West Germany
  • The inability to mourn, terminable and interminable
  • Conclusion: a stroll through the battleground of murdered concepts.