Triumph and Trauma / Bernhard Giesen ; foreword by S. N. Eisenstadt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giesen, Bernhard, 1948-2020, author.

Eisenstadt, S. N. (Shmuel Noah), 1923-2010, author of introduction, etc.

Series:

Yale cultural sociology series.

Yale Cultural Sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

Memory (Philosophy).

Guilt and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2016.

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.

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 perspectiveAt 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 societyPersonal 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 confessionThe 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 21, 2015).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-63145-8

1-317-25007-9

9781315631455

OCLC:

932339309