Nordicism and Modernity

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-61209-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 267 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

This book offers a complete narrative of the development of Nordicism, from its roots in the National Romantic movement of the late eighteenth century, through to its most notorious manifestation in Nazi Germany, and finally to the fragmented forms that still remain in contemporary society. It is distinctive in treating Nordicism as a phenomenon with its own narrative, rather than as discreet episodes in works studying aspects of Eugenics, Nationalism, Nazism and the reception history of Old Norse culture. It is also distinctive in applying to this narrative a framework of analysis derived from the parallel theories of Roger Griffin and Zygmunt Bauman, to examine Nordicism as a process of myth creation protecting both the individual and society from the challenges and terror of an ever-changing and accelerating state of modernity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Forssling, Gregers Einer

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Nordicism, Myth and Modernity.- 2. New Foundations: Nationalist and Romantic Visions of Nordic Revival in Northern Europe and America.- 3. Regeneration: Racial Science, Eugenics and the Emergence of Nordicism.- 4. Towards Ragnarok.- 5. Nordicism Unleashed.- 6. The Flotsam of Nordicism in our Liquid Modernity.

Über Autor(innen)

Gregers Einer Forssling was born in Hørsholm, Denmark and brought up and educated in the UK. In 2019, he was awarded a PhD in history by Oxford Brookes University. His research interests include the reception history of Norse culture, Anglo-Scandinavian culture during the Viking Age and the socio-cultural dynamics of Nazism.