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Towards a Humane Refugee Policy for the European Union outlines a
clear and detailed proposal on how to engage municipalities and
civil society initiatives in the relocation and reception of
migrants and asylum seekers. The proposals that the book contains
do not represent a panacea for the EU’s migration and refugee
policy: migration is too complex a phenomenon for that, and it
needs to be tackled at many levels. However, the ideas and tools
that the book illustrates will undoubtedly benefit both the
communities hosting newcomers and the newcomers themselves.
"Politics and Guilt" sheds new light on our understanding of the
pervasive psychological and cultural effects of Nazism by examining
the power of guilt in modern Germany. Usually seen as a
psychological and intensely personal phenomenon, the effect of
guilt on the collective arena of politics has been downplayed or
misunderstood by many political scientists. Taking issue with
Hannah Arendt, Daniel Goldhagen, and Hermann Lubbe, Gesine Schwan
argues that Germans must confront their Nazi past because the
repression or lack of acknowledgment of guilt damages modern
democracies. The Nazi perpetrators were not above the norms of good
and evil, she asserts, but were conscious of their guilt and silent
about it. The widespread psychological guilt in them and their
descendents has adversely affected perceptions of political
responsibility, marriage, and child rearing in modern Germany. At a
moment when past crimes are being exposed, reparation demands are
increasingly common, and world leaders are apologizing and making
amends for past mistakes and injustices, Schwan's analysis is
timely and thoughtful, standing as the most sophisticated
consideration of guilt in politics to date.
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