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Guilt and Defense - On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany (Hardcover)
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Guilt and Defense - On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany (Hardcover)
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Beginning in 1949, Theodor W. Adorno and other members of the
reconstituted Frankfurt Institute for Social Research undertook a
massive empirical study of German opinions about the legacies of
the Nazis, applying and modifying techniques they had learned
during their U.S. exile. They published their results in 1955 as a
research monograph edited by Friedrich Pollock. The study's
qualitative results are published here for the first time in
English as Guilt and Defense, a psychoanalytically informed
analysis of the rhetorical and conceptual mechanisms with which
postwar Germans most often denied responsibility for the Nazi past.
In their editorial introduction, Jeffrey K. Olick and Andrew J.
Perrin show how Adorno's famous 1959 essay "The Meaning of Working
through the Past," is comprehensible only as a conclusion to his
long-standing research and as a reaction to the debate it stirred;
this volume also includes a critique by psychologist Peter R.
Hoffstater as well as Adorno's rejoinder. This previously
little-known debate provides important new perspectives on postwar
German political culture, on the dynamics of collective memory, and
on Adorno's intellectual legacies, which have contributed more to
empirical social research than has been acknowledged. A companion
volume, Group Experiment and Other Writings, will present the first
book-length English translation of the Frankfurt Group's
conceptual, methodological, and theoretical innovations in public
opinion research.
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