An emotional state : the politics of emotion in postwar West German culture
tarafından
Parkinson, Anna M.
Başlık
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An emotional state : the politics of emotion in postwar West German culture
Yazar
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Parkinson, Anna M.
ISBN
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9780472121489
Yazar
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Parkinson, Anna M.
Yayın Bilgisi
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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2015.
Fiziksel Niteleme
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1 online resource
Seri
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Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany
Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany.
İçindekiler
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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.
Özet
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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 or addressed in a variety of German cultural artifacts, while also identifying previously unacknowledged (and under-theorized) affective structures implicitly at work during the country's national crisis. Much of the scholarship in the expanding field of affect theory distrusts Freudian psychoanalysis, which does not differentiate between emotion and affect. One of the book's major contributions is that it offers an analytical distinction between emotion and affect, finding a compelling way to talk about affect and emotion that is informed by affect theory but that integrates psychoanalysis. The study draws on the psychoanalytic writings of Freud, Margarete and Alexander Mitscherlich, and Andre Green, while engaging with interdisciplinary theorists of affect including Barbara Rosenwein, Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Eve Kosofsk Sedgwick, among many others; 'Offers a truly original, even pathbreaking, contribution to the study of postwar West German culture, while making a very important intervention in the theoretical debate on the study of emotions. Its potential audience includes not only historians and literary critics but the rapidly growing, strongly interdisciplinary community of emotion scholars'--Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego; 'Beautifully written, the book conveys its insights in clear prose and through carefully argued, illuminating readings. Parkinson thoughtfully frames each of her chapters as an inquiry, not simply into the textual nuances of argumentation and rhetoric, but into these texts' place in larger, pragmatic contexts that Parkinson calls 'scenarios.' Consequently, Parkinson attends not only to textual logic but also to perlocutionary effects--nuances of meaning, reception, and emotional tone that would otherwise remain inaudible'--Joahnnes von Moltke, University of Michigan"--Publisher's website
Konu Başlığı
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Social psychology -- Germany (West) -- History.
Affect (Psychology) -- Germany (West) -- History.
Emotions -- Social aspects -- Germany (West) -- History.
Emotions -- Political aspects -- Germany (West) -- History.
Psychologie sociale -- Allemagne (Ouest) -- Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
Affect (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00798853
Emotions -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00908832
Emotions -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00908846
Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Social psychology. (OCoLC)fst01122816
Coğrafi Terim
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Germany -- Social conditions -- 1945-1955.
Germany -- History -- 1945-1955.
Germany (West) -- History -- Sources.
Germany (West) -- Intellectual life.
Germany (West) -- Social conditions.
Germany (West) -- Politics and government.
Allemagne -- Conditions sociales -- 1945-1955.
Allemagne -- Histoire -- 1945-1955.
Allemagne (Ouest) -- Politique et gouvernement.
Germany. (OCoLC)fst01210272
Germany (West) (OCoLC)fst01210273
Tür
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
Elektronik Erişim
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Materyal Türü | Barkod | Yer Numarası | Durumu/İade Tarihi |
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Electronic Book | 646056-1001 | DD258.9 .P37 2015 | JSTOR E-Book Collection |