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An Emotional State : The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture /

"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 manif...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Parkinson, Anna M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.