Culture and Crisis

The Case of Germany and Sweden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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Beskrivning

It is often argued that Germany and Scandinavia stand at two opposite ends of a spectrum with regard to their response to social-economic disruptions and cultural challenges. Though, in many respects, they have a shared cultural inheritance, it is nevertheless the case that they mobilize different mythologies and different modes of coping when faced with breakdown and disorder. The authors argue that it is at these "critical junctures," points of crisis and innovation in the life of communities, that the tradition and identity of national and local communities are formed, polarized, and revalued; it is here that social change takes a particular direction.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2002-12-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:262
Förlag:Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN:9781571812698

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Nina Witoszek is Professor of Cultural History at Oslo University.

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"... the book deserves credit ... for trying to tackle the tricky issue of crisis as an historical theme, and in doing so offers a novel approach for rethinking the critical 1930s." · H-German

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionNina Witoszek and Lars TrägårdhChapter 1. Some Questions Concerning the Conceptual History of "Crisis"Reinhart KoselleckChapter 2. The Institutionalization of Modernity: Shocks and Crises in Germany and SwedenErik RingmarChapter 3. Moral Community and the Crisis of the Enlightenment: Sweden and Germany in the 1920s and 1930sNina WitoszekChapter 4. Crisis and the Politics of National Community: Germany and Sweden, 1933-1994Lars TrägårdhChapter 5. Interpreting the Holocaust: Crisis of Modernity or Crisis of German Ideology?Benjamin LappChapter 6. Politics and Catastrophe: Why Is the World So Obsessed with German History?Manfred HenningsenChapter 7. Race, Nation, and Folk: On the Repressed Memory of World War II in Sweden and Its Hidden CategoriesPiero CollaChapter 8. Crisis: The Road to Happiness?Yvonne HirdmanChapter 9. The Crisis of Consensus in Postwar SwedenGöran RosenbergChapter 10. Political Modernity's Critical Juncture in the Course of the French RevolutionRobert WoklerNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex