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Author Leeb, Claudia, author

Title The politics of repressed guilt : the tragedy of Austrian silence / Claudia Leeb
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 248 pages)
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Rethinking Reflective Judgment as Embodied -- 2. "Ich fuhle mich nicbt schuldig (I do not feel guilty)": From Doubts to Murder -- 3. Roma and Sinti as Homo Sacer -- 4. The Defense of Repressed Guilt: The Staging of Thomas Bernhard's Heldenplatz -- 5. An Austrian Haus der Geschichte}: The Drama Continues
Summary Drawing on the work of Hannah Arendt and Theodor W. Adorno, Claudia Leeb discusses guilt and democracy in the case of Austrian Nazi perpetrators and recent public controversies surrounding Austria's involvement in the Nazi atrocities. She shows us that only by guilt can individuals and nations take responsibility for their past crimes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-239) and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2018)
Subject Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
SUBJECT Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969 fast
Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 fast
Subject Guilt -- Austria
Guilt -- Political aspects
Psychoanalysis.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Psychological aspects
World War, 1939-1945 -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Austria
psychoanalysis.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Ethics
Atrocities -- Psychological aspects
Guilt
Psychoanalysis
Austria
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