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



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Autore: Bergerson Andrew Stuart Visualizza persona
Titolo: The happy burden of history [[electronic resource] ] : from sovereign impunity to responsible selfhood / / Andrew S. Bergerson ... [et al.] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berlin ; ; New York, : De Gruyter, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (264 p.)
Disciplina: 943.086072
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Germany History 1933-1945 Historiography
Germany History 1933-1945 Biography
Germany Moral conditions History 20th century
Soggetto non controllato: Coming to Terms with the Past
National Socialism
Responsibility
Persona (resp. second.): BakerK. Scott
MartinClancy <1967->
OstovichSteven T.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The happy burden of history  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-16603-8
9786613166036
3-11-024637-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910789997303321
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Serie: Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; ; v. 9.