The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be
experienced as either liberation or loss. In the twentieth century,
the authority of the father and of the leader became closely
intertwined; constraints and affective attachments intensified in
ways that had major effects on the organization of regimes of
authority. This comparative volume examines the resulting crisis in
symbolic identification, the national traumas that had crystallized
around four state political forms: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany,
Imperial Japan, and East European Communism. The defeat of Imperial
and Fascist regimes in 1945 and the implosion of Communist regimes
in 1989 were critical moments of rupture, of "death of the father."
What was the experience of their ends, and what is the
reconstruction of those ends in memory?
This volume represents is the beginning of a comparative social
anthropology of caesurae: the end of traumatic political regimes,
of their symbolic forms, political consequences, and probable
futures.
John Borneman, Professor of Anthropology at Princeton
University, specializes in political and legal anthropology. He has
written widely on national identification and symbolic form in
Germany and on the relation of culture to international order. His
most recent work is on accountability and the use of retributive
justice in preventing cycles of violence.
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