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Guilt and defense : on the legacies of national socialism in postwar Germany / Theodor W. Adorno ; translated, edited, and with an introduction by Jeffrey K. Olick and Andrew J. Perrin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public opinion--Germany.
- Public opinion.
- Germany--Politics and government--1945-1990.
- Germany.
- Germany--History--1945-1990.
- Institut für Sozialforschung (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, [2010]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- Beginning in 1949, Theodor W. Adorno and other members of the reconstituted Frankfurt Institute for Social Research undertook a massive empirical study of German opinions about the legacies of the Nazis, applying and modifying techniques they had learned during their U.S. exile. They published their results in 1955 as a research monograph edited by Friedrich Pollock. The study's qualitative results are published here for the first time in English as Guilt and Defense, a psychoanalytically informed analysis of the rhetorical and conceptual mechanisms with which postwar Germans most often denied responsibility for the Nazi past. In their editorial introduction, Jeffrey K. Olick and Andrew J. Perrin show how Adorno's famous 1959 essay "The Meaning of Working through the Past, " is comprehensible only as a conclusion to his long-standing research and as a reaction to the debate it stirred; this volume also includes a critique by psychologist Peter R. Hoffstater as well as Adorno's rejoinder. This previously little-known debate provides important new perspectives on postwar German political culture, on the dynamics of collective memory, and on Adorno's intellectual legacies, which have contributed more to empirical social research than has been acknowledged. A companion volume, Group Experiment and Other Writings, will present the first book-length English translation of the Frankfurt Group's conceptual, methodological, and theoretical innovations in public opinion research.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674265585
- 0674265580
- OCLC:
- 1252429617
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