03684nam 2200589 450 991081304980332120240222015041.01-315-63145-81-317-25007-9(CKB)3710000000526620(EBL)4186286(MiAaPQ)EBC4186286(Au-PeEL)EBL4186286(CaPaEBR)ebr11127859(CaONFJC)MIL877625(OCoLC)932339309(EXLCZ)99371000000052662020151228h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierTriumph and Trauma /Bernhard Giesen ; foreword by S. N. EisenstadtAbingdon, Oxon ;New York, New York :Routledge,2016.©20161 online resource (207 p.)Yale Cultural SociologyDescription based upon print version of record.1-59451-038-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 victimsVictims, 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; IntroductionReversing 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 traumaChanging 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 AuthorYale cultural sociology series.Group identityMemory (Philosophy)Guilt and cultureGroup identity.Memory (Philosophy)Guilt and culture.305Giesen Bernhard1948-2020,733665Eisenstadt S. N.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813049803321Triumph and Trauma3913448UNINA