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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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,
2017
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| Ausgabe: | First paperback edition |
| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
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| Schlagworte: | Emotions Affect (Psychology) Social psychology Deutschland Nationalbewusstsein Vergangenheitsbewältigung Gefühl Affekt Geschichte 1945-1949 Geschichte 1949-1955 mehr... |
| Umfang: | viii, 251 Seiten |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.