Triumph and Trauma - Giesen, Bernhard; Eisenstadt, S N
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This book deals with triumphant and tragic heroes, with victims and perpetrators as archetypes of the Western imagination. A major recent change in Western societies is that memories of triumphant heroism--for example, the revolutionary uprising of the people--are increasingly replaced by the public remembrance of collective trauma of genocide, slavery, and expulsion. The first part of the book deals with the heroes and victims and explores the social construction of charisma and its inevitable decay. Part two focuses on a paradigm case of the collective trauma of perpetrators.

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Produktbeschreibung
This book deals with triumphant and tragic heroes, with victims and perpetrators as archetypes of the Western imagination. A major recent change in Western societies is that memories of triumphant heroism--for example, the revolutionary uprising of the people--are increasingly replaced by the public remembrance of collective trauma of genocide, slavery, and expulsion. The first part of the book deals with the heroes and victims and explores the social construction of charisma and its inevitable decay. Part two focuses on a paradigm case of the collective trauma of perpetrators.
Autorenporträt
Bernhard Giesen, professor of sociology at the University of Konstanz, Germany, is the author most recently of Intellecdtuals and the Nation: Collective Identity in a German Axial Age (Cambridge, 1998) and The Micro-Macro Link (University of California Press).