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020 $a9780191023613$q(electronic bk.)
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100 1 $aBiess, Frank,$d1966-$eauthor.
245 10 $aGerman angst :$bfear and democracy in the Federal Republic of Germany /$cFrank Biess.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aOxford :$bOxford University Press,$c2020.
300 $a1 online resource (xx, 407 pages) :$billustrations (some color)
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
338 $aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aEmotions in history
588 $aDescription based on online resource ; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed December 2, 2020)
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aGerman Angst' analyses the relationship between fear and democracy in postwar West Germany. While fear and anxiety have historically been associated with authoritarian regimes, Frank Biess demonstrates the ambivalent role of these emotions in a democratizing society: in West Germany, fear and anxiety both undermined democracy and stabilized it. By taking seriously postwar Germans' uncertainties about the future, this study challenges dominant linear and teleological narratives of postwar West German 'success', highlighting the prospective function of memories of war, National Socialism, and the Holocaust. Postwar Germans projected fears and anxieties that they derived from memories of a catastrophic past into the future. 0Based on case studies from the 1940s to the present, 'German Angst' provides a new interpretive synthesis of the Federal Republic. It tells the history of the Federal Republic as a series of cyclical crises in which specific fears and anxieties emerged, served a variety of political functions, and then again abated. Drawing on recent interdisciplinary insights generated by the field of emotion studies, Biess's study transcends the dichotomy of 'reason' and 'emotion'. Fear and anxiety were not exclusively irrational and dysfunctional, but served important roles in postwar democracy. These emotions sensitized postwar Germans to the dangers of an authoritarian transformation, and they also served as emotional engines of new social movements, including the environmental and peace movements.0'German Angst' also provides an original analysis of the emotional basis of right-wing populism in Germany today, and it explores the possibilities of a democratic politics of emotion.
651 0 $aGermany (West)$xHistory.
651 0 $aGermany (West)$xPolitics and government$xPublic opinion.
651 0 $aGermany (West)$xSocial conditions.
651 0 $aGermany (West)$xCivilization.
650 0 $aCollective memory$zGermany (West)
651 6 $aAllemagne (Ouest)$xPolitique et gouvernement$xOpinion publique.
650 6 $aMémoire collective$zAllemagne (Ouest)
650 7 $aCivilization.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00862898
650 7 $aCollective memory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01739814
650 7 $aPolitics and government$xPublic opinion.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919779
650 7 $aSocial conditions.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01919811
651 7 $aGermany (West)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01210273
655 0 $aElectronic books.
655 4 $aElectronic books.
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
776 08 $iPrint version:$aBiess, Frank, 1966-$tGerman angst.$dOxford : Oxford University Press, 2020$z0198714181$w(OCoLC)1131795575
830 0 $aEmotions in history.
856 40 $uhttp://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio15166394$zAll EBSCO eBooks
852 8 $blweb$hEBOOKS