German Intellectuals and the Nazi Past

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-0-521-14571-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 293 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 465 g

This book analyzes how West German intellectuals debated the Nazi past and democratic future of their country. Rather than proceeding event by event, it highlights the underlying issues at stake: the question of a stigmatized nation and the polarized reactions to it that structured German discussion and memory of the Nazi past. Paying close attention to the generation of German intellectuals born during the Weimar Republic - the forty-fivers - this book traces the drama of sixty years of bitter public struggle about the meaning of the past: did the Holocaust forever stain German identity so that Germans could never again enjoy their national emotions like other nationalities? Or were Germans unfairly singled out for the crimes of their ancestors? By explaining how the perceived pollution of family and national life affected German intellectuals, the book shows that public debates cannot be isolated from the political emotions of the intelligentsia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moses, A. Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte Deutsche Geschichte: Holocaust
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Stigma and structure in German memory; 2. The languages of republicanism and West German political generations; 3. The Forty-Fivers: a generation between fascism and democracy; 4. The German German - the integrative republicanism of Wilhelm Hennis; 5. The non-German German - the redemptive republicanism of Jurgen Habermas; 6. Theory and practice: science, technology, and the republican university; 7. The crisis of the republic: 1960-1967; 8. 1967 and its aftermath; 9. The structure of discourse in the 1980s and 1990s; 10. History, multiculturalism, and the non-German German; 11. German Germans and the old nation; 12. Political theology and the dissolution of the underlying structure.

Über Autor(innen)

Moses, A. Dirk
Dirk Moses was educated in Australia, Scotland, the United States, and Germany. He has taught history at the University of Sydney since 2000. Moses' studies concern postwar Germany and comparative genocide, for which he has received numerous fellowships, including the Charles H. Revson Memorial Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial and Museum and a German Research Council Fellowship at the University of Freiburg. He is the editor of Empire, Colony, Genocide (2008), Colonialism and Genocide (2007, with Dan Stone), and Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Aboriginal Children in Australian History (2004). Moses is an associate editor of the Journal of Genocide Research, and sits on the advisory boards of H-German, Patterns of Prejudice, and the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence.