ESSAYS ANALYZING POSTWAR LITERARY, CULTURAL, AND HISTORICAL
REPRESENTATIONS OF "GOOD GERMANS" DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE
NAZI PERIOD.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, both the allied occupying
powers and the nascent German authorities sought Germans whose record
during the war and the Nazi period could serve as a counterpoint to
the notion of Germans asevil. That search has never really stopped. In
the past few years, we have witnessed a burgeoning of cultural
representations of this "other" kind of Third Reich citizen - the
"good German" - as opposed to the committed Nazi or genocidal maniac.
Such representations have highlighted individuals' choices in favor of
dissenting behavior, moral truth, or at the very least civil
disobedience. The "good German's" counterhegemonic practice cannot
negate or contradict the barbaric reality of Hitler's Germany, but
reflects a value system based on humanity and an "other" ideal
community.
This volume of new essays explores postwar and recent representations
of "good Germans" during the Third Reich, analyzing the logic of moral
behavior, cultural and moral relativism, and social conformity found
in them. It thus draws together discussions of the function and
reception of "Good Germans" in Germany and abroad.
Contributors: Eoin Bourke, Manuel Bragança, Maeve Cooke, Kevin De
Ornellas, Sabine Egger, Joachim Fischer, Coman Hamilton, Jon Hughes,
Karina von Lindeiner-Strásky, Alexandra Ludewig, Pól O Dochartaigh,
Christiane Schönfeld, Matthias Uecker.
Pól O Dochartaigh is Professor of German and Dean of the Faculty of
Arts at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland. Christiane
Schönfeld is Senior Lecturer in German and Head of the Department of
German Studies at Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick.
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Altruism and Moral Ambiguity
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ISBN
9781571137876
Publisert
2022
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1. utgave
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Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok