Heimat, nation, fatherland : the German sense of belonging / edited by Jost Hermand & James Steakley
- Bib ID:
- 2954239
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- New York : P. Lang, c1996
- 230 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 082043373X (alkaline paper)
- Series:
- German life and civilization ; v. 22.
- Summary:
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The terms Heimat, nation, or fatherland have had such controversial histories that they elude all attempts at a one-dimensional definition. Over the course of modern German history, Heimat has come to mean virtually anything: a romantic nostalgia for preindustrial conditions; a conservative emphasis on various attributes; a feeling of ecological responsibility for a particular region; an aversion for the ugliness brought about by industry; a glorification of the German peasantry as the wellspring of national health; and much more. The contributions to this volume critically examine selected aspects of these concepts, including eighteenth-century patriotism, attitudes of German-Americans, German-Jewish understanding of Heimat, the Heimatschutz movement, Nazi appropriations of history, the Heimat film, Heidegger's and Adorno's notions of Heimat, and German geopolitics.
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- "Fatherland": Patriotism and Nationalism in the Eighteenth Century / Hans Peter Herrmann
- Fernweh - Heimweh? Attitudes of German-Americans before 1900 / Cora Lee Nollendorfs
- Berlin: A Jewish Heimat at the Turn of the Century? / Erhard Schutz
- Heimat, Modernity, and Nation in the Early Heimatschutz Movement / William Rollins
- The Antinomies of Heimat: Homeland, History, Nazism / Rudy Koshar
- "Ein wunderbares Heute": The Evolution and Functionalization of "Heimat" in West German Heimat Films of the 1950s / Ted Rippey, Melissa Sundell and Suzanne Townley
- Todtnauberg and Amorbach: Heimat as Name and Orientation / Karla Schultz
- Geopolitics in the Historikerstreit: The Strange Return of Mittellage / Mark Bassin.
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- Includes bibliographical references.
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