206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book deals with triumphant and tragic heroes, with victims and perpetrators as archetypes of the Western imagination. A major recent change in Western societies is that memories of triumphant heroism-for example, the revolutionary uprising of the people-are increasingly replaced by the public remembrance of collective trauma of genocide, slavery and expulsion. The first part of the book... Read more
Introduction. Triumphant Heroes: Between Gods and Humans. Victims: Neither Subjects Nor Objects. The Tragic hero: The Decapitation of the King. The Trauma of Perpetrators. Postscript: Modernity and Ambivalence.
Biography
Bernhard Giesen, professor of sociology at the University of Konstanz, Germany, is the author most recently of Intellecdtuals and the Nation: Collective Identity in a German Axial Age (Cambridge, 1998) and The Micro-Macro Link (University of California Press).
