Triumph and Trauma (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) by Bernhard Giesen,S. N. Eisenstadt

By Bernhard Giesen,S. N. Eisenstadt

This publication offers with effective and tragic heroes, with sufferers and perpetrators as archetypes of the Western mind's eye. a huge fresh switch in Western societies is that thoughts of successful heroism-for instance, the progressive rebellion of the people-are more and more changed through the general public remembrance of collective trauma of genocide, slavery and expulsion. the 1st a part of the booklet offers with the heroes and sufferers and explores the social development of air of secrecy and its inevitable decay. half 2 specializes in a paradigm case of the collective trauma of perpetrators: German nationwide identification among 1945 and 2000. After a time of latency, the legacy of nationalistic trauma was once addressed in a public clash among generations. The clash took heart degree in brilliant public debates and have become a middle component to Germany's respectable political tradition. at the present time public confessions of the guilt of the prior have unfold past the German case. they're a part of a brand new post-utopian trend of collective identification in a globalised setting.

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