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A unique historical and literary document of lives dislocated by
the collapse of East Germany. What happens when the world in which
people have crafted identities for themselves and lived their lives
suddenly disappears? How does a person -- or a nation -- confront
such a shock? From 1990 to 1993, at an unparalleled momentin German
history, Olaf Georg Klein interviewed almost a hundred fellow
former East German citizens, probing their experiences of the
sudden collapse of the German Democratic Republic, then crafting
that material into twelve first-person narratives. The result is a
literary account whose narrators include representatives from the
cities and the countryside, from young and old, from the East
German power elite and the resistance, as well as from those in
position to be critical of both the GDR and united Germany. The
book was a sensation in Germany upon its publication in 1994, and
the translation will be of interest to students and scholars in
history and political science, sociology, psychology, and literary
studies. It includes an introduction and extensive annotations to
assist the reader in understanding the East German and unified
German contexts. Olaf Georg Klein's novel Aftermath was published
in translation by Northwestern University Press in 1999. Ann
McGlashan is Associate Professor of German and Dwight D. Allman is
Associate Professor of Political Science, both at Baylor
University.
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Instilling Ethics (Paperback)
Norma Thompson; Contributions by Stephen Salkever, Cary Nederman, Jeff Macy, Vickie Sullivan, …
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Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical
sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our
time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent
scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems,
pretensions, and positive potentialities of ethical practices
today. Instilling Ethics offers a new way of connecting today's
ethics to the great ethical sources of the past-- classical,
medieval, and early modern--and presents a wise and witty critique
of the current practice of 'professional ethics.'
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