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An emotional state : the politics of emotion in postwar West German culture /

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This literary-historical study seeks to dismantle the prevailing notion that Germany, in the period following the Second World War, exhibited an 'inability to mourn,' arguing that in fact the period experienced a surge of affect. Anna Parkinson examines the emotions explicitly manifested o...

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Main Author: Parkinson, Anna M. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
Series:Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
Subjects:
Emotions > Political aspects > Germany (West) > History.
Emotions > Social aspects > Germany (West) > History.
Affect (Psychology) > Germany (West) > History.
Social psychology > Germany (West) > History.
Germany (West) > Politics and government.
Germany (West) > Social conditions.
Germany (West) > Intellectual life.
Germany (West) > History > Sources.
Germany > History > 1945-1955.
Germany > Social conditions > 1945-1955.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Another country : emotions after Freud
  • Guilt : Karl Jaspers and the "German question"
  • Ressentiment : democratic sentiments and the affective structure of postwar West Germany
  • The inability to mourn, terminable and interminable
  • Conclusion: A stroll through the battleground of murdered concepts.