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Anna M. Parkinson - An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany) - 9780472119684 - V9780472119684
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An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)

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Description for An Emotional State: The Politics of Emotion in Postwar West German Culture (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany) Hardcover. Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJP; 3JM; GTJ; HPS; JFC; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 825.

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Series
Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472119684
SKU
V9780472119684
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Ref
99-15

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 (Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany)
“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 …” ... Read more

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