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Author Bergerson, Andrew Stuart

Title The Happy Burden of History : From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood
Published Berlin : De Gruyter, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (264 pages)
Series Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, 1861-8030 ; v. 9
Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 9. 1861-8030
Contents List of Illustrations; About this Book; Myths; Lies; Non-Conformity; Irony; The Finish; Bibliography
Summary What can well-meaning people do about terror and genocide? The more we fight against systems of violence, the further we seem to sink into them. This book explores the lives and letters of ordinary and intellectual Germans who faced the ethical challenges of the Third Reich. Trained in history, literary criticism, philosophy, and theology, its four authors look at the role of myths, lies, non-conformity, irony, and modeling in cultivating 'a self'. They explain how we might use these ordinary strategies of selfhood to bear the burden of historical responsibility Ư? and be happy doing
Analysis Coming to Terms with the Past
National Socialism
Responsibility
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject National socialism -- Historiography
Genocide -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Impunity -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory -- Germany
Self -- Social aspects -- Germany
Responsibility -- Social aspects -- Germany
Social change -- Germany
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Collective memory
Genocide
Historiography
Impunity
Moral conditions
National socialism -- Historiography
Responsibility -- Social aspects
Self -- Social aspects
Social change
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054595
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Biography
Germany -- Moral conditions -- History -- 20th century
Subject Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Baker, K. Scott
Martin, Clancy
Ostovich, Steven
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