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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813049803321
• Autore: Giesen Bernhard <1948-2020, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, New York : , : Routledge, , 2016; ©2016
• ISBN: 1-315-63145-8; 1-317-25007-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Collana: Yale Cultural Sociology
• Disciplina: 305
• Soggetti: Group identity; Memory (Philosophy); Guilt and culture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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