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The Happy Burden of History - From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood (Paperback)
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The Happy Burden of History - From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood (Paperback)
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Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for
Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do
differently? Indeed, scholars have yet to outline viable
alternatives for how any of us should respond to terror and
genocide. And because of the way they compartmentalize everyday
life, our discipline-bound analyses often disguise more than they
illuminate. Written by a historian, literary critic, philosopher,
and theologian, The Happy Burden of History takes an integrative
approach to the problem of responsible selfhood. Exploring the
lives and letters of ordinary and intellectual Germans who faced
the ethical challenges of the Third Reich, it focuses on five
typical tools for cultivating the modern self: myths, lies,
non-conformity, irony, and modeling. The authors carefully dissect
the ways in which ordinary and intellectual Germans excused their
violent claims to mastery with a sense of 'sovereign impunity.'They
then recuperate the same strategies of selfhoodfor our contemporary
world, but in ways that are self-critical and humble. The book
shows how viewing this problem from within everyday life can
empower and encourage usto bear the burden of historical
responsibility - and be happy doing so.
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