| Acknowledgments |
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| Foreword by S.N. Eisenstadt |
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| Introduction |
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1 | (14) |
| 1 Triumphant Heroes: Between Gods and Humans |
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The social construction of heroes |
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15 | (2) |
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Heroes as triumphant subjectivity |
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17 | (5) |
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The sacrificial core of heroism |
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22 | (3) |
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25 | (3) |
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Relics: The places of heroes |
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28 | (3) |
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Monuments: The face of the hero |
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31 | (3) |
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Classics: the voice of the hero |
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34 | (2) |
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The Hero's Dress for Everybody: Historicism |
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36 | (4) |
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Places without heroes: The evanescence of the sacred |
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40 | (2) |
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42 | (3) |
| 2 Victims: Neither subjects nor objects |
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45 | (30) |
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The social construction of victims |
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45 | (1) |
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Victims, perpetrators and the public perspective |
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46 | (2) |
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At the fringe of moral communities |
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48 | (6) |
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54 | (4) |
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Before guilt and innocence: Victims as sacred objects |
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58 | (2) |
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Personal compassion: The victim as the inferior subject |
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60 | (1) |
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Impartial justice: The construction of perpetrators |
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61 | (3) |
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The discourse of civil society: The construction of victimhood |
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64 | (2) |
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Claims and recognitions in a strong public sphere |
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66 | (5) |
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71 | (1) |
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72 | (3) |
| 3 The Tragic Hero: The Decapitation of the King: Triumph and Trauma in the Transfer of Political Charisma |
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75 | (34) |
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75 | (2) |
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Reversing the perspective on the center: The master narrative of modern society |
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77 | (3) |
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Personal charisma: Linking the king's two bodies |
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80 | (5) |
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The rule of the law: Accusing the king |
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85 | (6) |
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The public sphere of civil society: Scandal at the center |
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91 | (7) |
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The public space of the people: Scapegoating the center |
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98 | (3) |
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The publicity of the media: Dissolving the center |
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101 | (4) |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (2) |
| 4 The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity |
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109 | (46) |
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109 | (3) |
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Lost paradises: Germany as Naturnation |
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112 | (3) |
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Failed revolutions: Democracy without a triumphant myth |
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115 | (5) |
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120 | (9) |
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Changing sides: Public conflicts and rituals of confession |
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129 | (6) |
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The objectification of the trauma: Scholarly debates and museums |
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135 | (6) |
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The mythologization of the trauma: The Holocaust as an icon of evil |
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141 | (3) |
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The globalization of the trauma: A new mode of universalist identity |
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144 | (9) |
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153 | (2) |
| 5 Postscript: Modernity and Ambivalence |
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155 | (10) |
| References |
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165 | (22) |
| Index |
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187 | (9) |
| About the Author |
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