Triumph And Trauma: Giesen, Bernhard: 9781594510397: Book: Social Science: eCampus.com

Acknowledgments

vii

Foreword

S. N. Eisenstadt

Introduction

(14)

Triumphant Heroes: Between Gods and Humans

(30)

The social construction of heroes

(2)

Heroes as triumphant subjectivity

(5)

The sacrificial core of heroism

(3)

Rituals of remembrance

(3)

Relics: The places of heroes

(3)

Monuments: The face of the hero

(3)

Classics: the voice of the hero

(2)

The Hero's Dress for Everybody: Historicism

(4)

Places without heroes: The evanescence of the sacred

(2)

Notes

(3)

Victims: Neither subjects nor objects

(30)

The social construction of victims

(1)

Victims, perpetrators and the public perspective

(2)

At the fringe of moral communities

(6)

Remembering victims

(4)

Before guilt and innocence: Victims as sacred objects

(2)

Personal compassion: The victim as the inferior subject

(1)

Impartial justice: The construction of perpetrators

(3)

The discourse of civil society: The construction of victimhood

(2)

Claims and recognitions in a strong public sphere

(5)

Concluding remarks

(1)

Notes

(3)

The Tragic Hero: The Decapitation of the King: Triumph and Trauma in the Transfer of Political Charisma

(34)

Introduction

(2)

Reversing the perspective on the center: The master narrative of modern society

(3)

Personal charisma: Linking the king's two bodies

(5)

The rule of the law: Accusing the king

(6)

The public sphere of civil society: Scandal at the center

(7)

The public space of the people: Scapegoating the center

(3)

The publicity of the media: Dissolving the center

101

(4)

Concluding remarks

105

(2)

Notes

107

(2)

The Trauma of Perpetrators: The Holocaust as the Traumatic Reference of German National Identity

109

(46)

Introduction

109

(3)

Lost paradises: Germany as Naturnation

112

(3)

Failed revolutions: Democracy without a triumphant myth

115

(5)

The denial of the trauma

120

(9)

Changing sides: Public conflicts and rituals of confession

129

(6)

The objectification of the trauma: Scholarly debates and museums

135

(6)

The mythologization of the trauma: The Holocaust as an icon of evil

141

(3)

The globalization of the trauma: A new mode of universalist identity

144

(9)

Notes

153

(2)

Postscript: Modernity and Ambivalence

155

(10)

References

165

(22)

Index

187

(9)

About the Author

196


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