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Triumph and Trauma.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (207 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315631455
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Triumph and TraumaDDC classification:
  • 306.2
LOC classification:
  • HM
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Triumphant Heroes: Between Gods and Humans -- The social construction of heroes -- Heroes as triumphant subjectivity -- The sacrificial core of heroism -- Rituals of remembrance -- Relics: The places of heroes -- Monuments: The face of the hero -- Classics: the voice of the hero -- The Hero's Dress for Everybody: Historicism -- Places without heroes: The evanescence of the sacred -- Notes -- 2 Victims: Neither subjects nor objects -- The social construction of victims -- Victims, perpetrators and the public perspective -- At the fringe of moral communities -- Remembering victims -- Before guilt and innocence: Victims as sacred objects -- Personal compassion: The victim as the inferior subject -- Impartial justice: The construction of perpetrators -- The discourse of civil society: The construction of victimhood -- Claims and recognitions in a strong public sphere -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 3 The Tragic Hero: The Decapitation of the King: Triumph and Trauma in the Transfer of Political Charisma -- Introduction -- Reversing the perspective on the center: The master narrative of modern society -- Personal charisma: Linking the king's two bodies -- The rule of the law: Accusing the king -- The public sphere of civil society: Scandal at the center -- The public space of the people: Scapegoating the center -- The publicity of the media: Dissolving the center -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 4 The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity -- Introduction -- Lost paradises: Germany as Naturnation -- Failed revolutions: Democracy without a triumphant myth -- The denial of the trauma -- Changing sides: Public conflicts and rituals of confession.
The objectification of the trauma: Scholarly debates and museums -- The mythologization of the trauma: The Holocaust as an icon of evil -- The globalization of the trauma: A new mode of universalist identity -- Notes -- 5 Postscript: Modernity and Ambivalence -- References -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: 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.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Triumphant Heroes: Between Gods and Humans -- The social construction of heroes -- Heroes as triumphant subjectivity -- The sacrificial core of heroism -- Rituals of remembrance -- Relics: The places of heroes -- Monuments: The face of the hero -- Classics: the voice of the hero -- The Hero's Dress for Everybody: Historicism -- Places without heroes: The evanescence of the sacred -- Notes -- 2 Victims: Neither subjects nor objects -- The social construction of victims -- Victims, perpetrators and the public perspective -- At the fringe of moral communities -- Remembering victims -- Before guilt and innocence: Victims as sacred objects -- Personal compassion: The victim as the inferior subject -- Impartial justice: The construction of perpetrators -- The discourse of civil society: The construction of victimhood -- Claims and recognitions in a strong public sphere -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 3 The Tragic Hero: The Decapitation of the King: Triumph and Trauma in the Transfer of Political Charisma -- Introduction -- Reversing the perspective on the center: The master narrative of modern society -- Personal charisma: Linking the king's two bodies -- The rule of the law: Accusing the king -- The public sphere of civil society: Scandal at the center -- The public space of the people: Scapegoating the center -- The publicity of the media: Dissolving the center -- Concluding remarks -- Notes -- 4 The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity -- Introduction -- Lost paradises: Germany as Naturnation -- Failed revolutions: Democracy without a triumphant myth -- The denial of the trauma -- Changing sides: Public conflicts and rituals of confession.

The objectification of the trauma: Scholarly debates and museums -- The mythologization of the trauma: The Holocaust as an icon of evil -- The globalization of the trauma: A new mode of universalist identity -- Notes -- 5 Postscript: Modernity and Ambivalence -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

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.

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