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Triumph and Trauma.
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| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2004.
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| Colección: | Yale Cultural Sociology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Triumphant Heroes: Between Gods and Humans; The social construction of heroes; Heroes as triumphant subjectivity; The sacrificial core of heroism; Rituals of remembrance; Relics: The places of heroes; Monuments: The face of the hero; Classics: the voice of the hero; The Hero's Dress for Everybody: Historicism; Places without heroes: The evanescence of the sacred; Notes; 2 Victims: Neither subjects nor objects; The social construction of victims.
- Victims, perpetrators and the public perspectiveAt the fringe of moral communities; Remembering victims; Before guilt and innocence: Victims as sacred objects; Personal compassion: The victim as the inferior subject; Impartial justice: The construction of perpetrators; The discourse of civil society: The construction of victimhood; Claims and recognitions in a strong public sphere; Concluding remarks; Notes; 3 The Tragic Hero: The Decapitation of the King: Triumph and Trauma in the Transfer of Political Charisma; Introduction.
- Reversing the perspective on the center: The master narrative of modern societyPersonal charisma: Linking the king's two bodies; The rule of the law: Accusing the king; The public sphere of civil society: Scandal at the center; The public space of the people: Scapegoating the center; The publicity of the media: Dissolving the center; Concluding remarks; Notes; 4 The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity; Introduction; Lost paradises: Germany as Naturnation; Failed revolutions: Democracy without a triumphant myth; The denial of the trauma.
- Changing sides: Public conflicts and rituals of confessionThe objectification of the trauma: Scholarly debates and museums; The mythologization of the trauma: The Holocaust as an icon of evil; The globalization of the trauma: A new mode of universalist identity; Notes; 5 Postscript: Modernity and Ambivalence; References; Index; About the Author.