Culture and Crisis

The Case of Germany and Sweden
1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-1-57181-269-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Witoszek, Nina

Trägårdh, Lars

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Nina Witoszek and Lars Trägårdh

Chapter 1. Some Questions Concerning the Conceptual History of "Crisis"

Reinhart Koselleck

Chapter 2. The Institutionalization of Modernity: Shocks and Crises in Germany and Sweden

Erik Ringmar

Chapter 3. Moral Community and the Crisis of the Enlightenment: Sweden and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s

Nina Witoszek

Chapter 4. Crisis and the Politics of National Community: Germany and Sweden, 1933-1994

Lars Trägårdh

Chapter 5. Interpreting the Holocaust: Crisis of Modernity or Crisis of German Ideology?

Benjamin Lapp

Chapter 6. Politics and Catastrophe: Why Is the World So Obsessed with German History?

Manfred Henningsen

Chapter 7. Race, Nation, and Folk: On the Repressed Memory of World War II in Sweden and Its Hidden Categories

Piero Colla

Chapter 8. Crisis: The Road to Happiness?

Yvonne Hirdman

Chapter 9. The Crisis of Consensus in Postwar Sweden

Göran Rosenberg

Chapter 10. Political Modernity's Critical Juncture in the Course of the French Revolution

Robert Wokler

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Witoszek, Nina
Nina Witoszek is Professor of Cultural History at Oslo University.

Trägårdh, Lars
Lars Trägårdh received his Ph D in history from UC Berkeley and currently co-directs a research project concerning trust and state/civil society relations in Sweden at the Research Institute of Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm. His most recent publications include State and Civil Society in Northern Europe (Berghahn Books, 2007), After National Democracy: Rights, Law and Power in America in the New Europe (Hart Publishing, 2004), and with Henrik Berggren Är svensken människa: Oberoende och gemenskap i det moderna Sverige (Norstedts, 2006).

Lars Trägårdh received his Ph D in history from UC Berkeley and currently co-directs a research project concerning trust and state/civil society relations in Sweden at the Research Institute of Ersta Sköndal University College in Stockholm. His most recent publications include State and Civil Society in Northern Europe (Berghahn Books, 2007), After National Democracy: Rights, Law and Power in America in the New Europe (Hart Publishing, 2004), and with Henrik Berggren Är svensken människa: Oberoende och gemenskap i det moderna Sverige (Norstedts, 2006).