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The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television, Pauline Ebert
The Cultural Memory Of German Victimhood In Post-1990 Popular German Literature And Television, Pauline Ebert
Wayne State University Dissertations
My dissertation analyzes the representation of Germans as victims of the Third Reich and the Second World War in post-1990 German memory. After unification, there no longer were two states that could each blame the other as the heir of National Socialism and this past had to be renegotiated. The claim that many Germans had been victims became central as evidenced by the vast number of popular literature, commercial cinema and television programs of this subject. I argue with Wulf Kansteiner (2006) that to understand collective memory, we should explore mass media representations. As the majority of highbrow artifacts do …
Karl Löwith's View Of History: A Humanist Alternative To Historicism, Berthold P. Riesterer
Karl Löwith's View Of History: A Humanist Alternative To Historicism, Berthold P. Riesterer
Wayne State University Dissertations
The survival and increasing academic importance of the supra-historical position, particularly as an alternative to existential ontology and English analytical philosophy, indicate that a careful study of this particular trend is in order. The following analysis of the intellectual development of Karl Löwith, a thinker who in the course of his career moved from phenomenology and ontology to historicism and then finally to the supra-historical position, it is hoped, will make a contribution toward such a study.