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Anna M. Parkinson - An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture - 9780472036813 - V9780472036813
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An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture

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Description for An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture Paperback. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; DSRC; HBJD; HBW; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .

This literary-historical study seeks to dismantle the prevailing notion that Germany, in the period following the Second World War, exhibited an “inability to mourn,” arguing that in fact this period experienced a surge of affect. Anna Parkinson examines the emotions explicitly manifested or addressed in a variety of German cultural artifacts, while also identifying previously unacknowledged (and undertheorized) affective structures implicitly at work during the country’s national crisis. Much of the scholarship in the expanding field of affect theory distrusts Freudian psychoanalysis, which does not differentiate between emotion and affect.

One of the book’s major contributions is that it offers an analytical distinction between emotion and affect, finding a compelling way to talk about affect and emotion that is informed by affect theory but that integrates psychoanalysis. The study draws on the psychoanalytic writings of Freud, Margarete and Alexander Mitscherlich, and André Green, while engaging with interdisciplinary theorists of affect including Barbara Rosenwein, Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick among many others.

Product Details

Publisher
The University of Michigan Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472036813
SKU
V9780472036813
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99-50

About Anna M. Parkinson
Anna M. Parkinson is Associate Professor in the Department of German, Northwestern University.

Reviews for An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture
“As a literary-historical study of postwar Germany, this book makes a substantial contribution to German Studies, offering a much-needed critique of ‘melancholic scholarship’ in favour of work that wrestles with the often complex emotionality of the postwar era.” — German History “An Emotional State thus innovatively presents highly productive building blocks toward a complexified historical study of emotion …” — The Germanic Review “Offers a truly original, even pathbreaking, contribution to the study of postwar West German culture, while making a very important intervention in the theoretical debate on the study of emotions. Its potential audience includes not only historians and literary critics but the rapidly growing, strongly interdisciplinary community of ‘emotion scholars’.” — Frank Biess, University of California, San Diego

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