Guilt: A Force of Cultural Transformation

ISBN-13: 9780197557440 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 376 str.

Katharina Von Kellenbach; Matthias Buschmeier

Recenzje

How can we not only recognize, but also recover from, the atrocities of the past? Drawing on a global range of recent case studies, this book offers a kaleidoscopic, thought-provoking dive into new research on guilt in the aftermath of collective violence and confirms that penance can be productive. Mediated through religion, law, and politics, as well as film, literature, and theatre, guilt as a shared sense of moral responsibility can lead societies towards reconciliation

O autorze

Katharina von Kellenbach is Professor emerita of Religious Studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland and project coordinator at the Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin. She is the author of Anti-Judaism in Feminist Religious Writings, The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Lives of Nazi Perpetrators, and Composting Guilt: The Purification of Memory after Atrocity. Matthias Buschmeier is an Associate Professor (Akademischer Oberrat) of German Literature at Bielefeld University, Germany. He has published widely on German and European Literature and the History of Knowledge from the 18th to 20th centuries. His areas of research include the relation between literature and politics, cultural theory, hermeneutics and pragmatism, philology, the historiography of world literature, and discourses of knowledge.