1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461352903321

Autore

Bergerson Andrew Stuart

Titolo

The happy burden of history [[electronic resource] ] : from sovereign impunity to responsible selfhood / / Andrew S. Bergerson ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2011

ISBN

1-283-16603-8

9786613166036

3-11-024637-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, , 1861-8030 ; ; v. 9

Disciplina

943.086072

Soggetti

National socialism - Historiography

Genocide - Germany - History - 20th century

Impunity - Germany - History - 20th century

Collective memory - Germany

Self - Social aspects - Germany

Responsibility - Social aspects - Germany

Social change - Germany

Electronic books.

Germany History 1933-1945 Historiography

Germany History 1933-1945 Biography

Germany Moral conditions History 20th century

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.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About this Book -- Myths -- Lies -- Non-Conformity -- Irony -- The Finish -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do differently? Indeed, scholars have yet to outline viable alternatives for how any of us should respond to terror and genocide. And because of the way they compartmentalize everyday life, our discipline-bound analyses often disguise more than they illuminate. Written by a historian, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian, The Happy Burden of History takes an



integrative approach to the problem of responsible selfhood. Exploring the lives and letters of ordinary and intellectual Germans who faced the ethical challenges of the Third Reich, it focuses on five typical tools for cultivating the modern self: myths, lies, non-conformity, irony, and modeling. The authors carefully dissect the ways in which ordinary and intellectual Germans excused their violent claims to mastery with a sense of 'sovereign impunity.' They then recuperate the same strategies of selfhood for our contemporary world, but in ways that are self-critical and humble. The book shows how viewing this problem from within everyday life can empower and encourage us to bear the burden of historical responsibility - and be happy doing so.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996390513603316

Autore

Caton William <1636-1665.>

Titolo

The moderate enquirer resolved [[electronic resource] ] : in a plain description of several objections which are summed up together, and treated upon by way of conference, concerning the contemned people commonly called Quakers, who are royal seed of God, and whose innocency is here cleared in the answers to many objections that are frequently produced by their opposers. Which may be profitable for all to read that have any thing against them, and useful for all such as desire to know the certainty of those things which are most commonly reported of them. Written in the behalf of the brethren, in vindication of the truth: By W.C

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed, and are to be sold by Lodowick Lloyd, at the Castle in Cornhill, 1659

Descrizione fisica

61, [3] p

Soggetti

Society of Friends - England - Doctrines

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

W. C. = William Caton.

Reproduction of the original in the Friends' House Library, London.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0080