TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - German angst : fear and democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany
T2  - Emotions in history
A1  - Biess, Frank, 1966- kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
YR  - 2020
ED  - First edition
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5590115
AB  - German Angst' analyses the relationship between fear and democracy in postwar West Germany. While fear and anxiety have historically been associated with authoritarian regimes, Frank Biess demonstrates the ambivalent role of these emotions in a democratizing society: in West Germany, fear and anxiety both undermined democracy and stabilized it. By taking seriously postwar Germans' uncertainties about the future, this study challenges dominant linear and teleological narratives of postwar West German 'success', highlighting the prospective function of memories of war, National Socialism, and the Holocaust. Postwar Germans projected fears and anxieties that they derived from memories of a catastrophic past into the future. 0Based on case studies from the 1940s to the present, 'German Angst' provides a new interpretive synthesis of the Federal Republic. It tells the history of the Federal Republic as a series of cyclical crises in which specific fears and anxieties emerged, served a variety of political functions, and then again abated. Drawing on recent interdisciplinary insights generated by the field of emotion studies, Biess's study transcends the dichotomy of 'reason' and 'emotion'. Fear and anxiety were not exclusively irrational and dysfunctional, but served important roles in postwar democracy. These emotions sensitized postwar Germans to the dangers of an authoritarian transformation, and they also served as emotional engines of new social movements, including the environmental and peace movements.0'German Angst' also provides an original analysis of the emotional basis of right-wing populism in Germany today, and it explores the possibilities of a democratic politics of emotion.
SN  - 978-0-19-871418-7 kovakantinen
SN  - 0198714181 kovakantinen
KW  - Collective memory : Germany (West)
KW  - saksalaiset
KW  - sodanjälkeinen aika
KW  - pelko
KW  - epävarmuus
KW  - demokratia
KW  - yhteiskunta
KW  - politiikka
KW  - poliittinen historia
KW  - historia
KW  - tyskar
KW  - efterkrigstid
KW  - rädsla
KW  - osäkerhet
KW  - demokrati
KW  - samhället
KW  - politik
KW  - politisk historia
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Collective memory
KW  - Politics and government : Public opinion
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Germany (West) : History.
KW  - Germany (West) : Politics and government : Public opinion.
KW  - Germany (West) : Social conditions.
KW  - Germany (West) : Civilization.
KW  - Saksa
KW  - Saksan liittotasavalta
KW  - Tyskland
KW  - Förbundsrepubliken Tyskland
KW  - Germany (West)
ER  -