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The first comprehensive study of the topic. Follows the reception and impact of Völkerpsychologie, both in Germany and abroad. Traces the genealogy of concepts currently used in the social sciences and humanities, e.g. 'identity', and explains the circumstances of their inception. Challenges the notion that Völkerpsychologieis and/or was an uniquely German phenomenon.

Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores conceptions and experiences of masculinity among Jews in Germany from the 16th through the late 20th century as well as emigrants to North America, Palestine, and Israel. The volume examines the different worlds of students, businessmen, mohels, ritual slaughterers, rabbis, performers, and others, shedding new light on the challenge for Jewish men of balancing German citizenship and cultural affiliation with Jewish communal solidarity, religious practice, and identity.

Volkerpsychologieplayed an important role in establishing the social sciences via the works of such scholars as Georg Simmel, Emile Durkheim, Ernest Renan, Franz Boas, and Werner Sombart. In Germany, the intellectual history of \"folk psychology\" was represented by Moritz Lazarus, Heymann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt and Willy Hellpach. This book follows the invention of the discipline in the nineteenth century, its rise around the turn of the century and its ultimate demise after the Second World War. In addition, it shows that despite the repudiation of \"folk psychology\" and its failed institutionalization, the discipline remains relevant as a precursor of contemporary studies of \"national identity.\"

David Sorkin argues that Jewish emancipation and encounters with German culture and society led not to assimilation but to the creation of a new Jewish subculture that produced many of Judaism's modern movements and fostered a pantheon of outstanding writers, artists, composers, scientists, and academics.

In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted the new styles. Poiger reveals that East and West German authorities deployed gender and racial norms to contain Americanized youth cultures in their own territories and to carry on the ideological Cold War battle with each other. Poiger's lively account is based on an impressive array of sources, ranging from films, newspapers, and contemporary sociological studies, to German and U.S. archival materials. Jazz, Rock, and Rebels examines diverging responses to American culture in East and West Germany by linking these to changes in social science research, political cultures, state institutions, and international alliance systems. In the first two decades of the Cold War, consumer culture became a way to delineate the boundaries between East and West. This pathbreaking study, the first comparative cultural history of the two Germanies, sheds new light on the legacy of Weimar and National Socialism, on gender and race relations in Europe, and on Americanization and the Cold War.

Dieses Diskurswörterbuch verzeichnet diejenigen Schlüsselwörter der frühen Nachkriegszeit, die im Zusammenhang mit dem Schulddiskurs besonders relevant waren. Es sind Wörter, die Opfer, Täter und Nichttäter benutzt haben, um über die Schuld (und Unschuld) der Deutschen zu reden, um zu argumentieren und um Schuld zu bekennen. Entsprechend der lexikalisch-semantischen Netzstruktur eines Diskurses integrieren die den Wortschatz zum Schulddiskurs erklärenden Artikel die onomasiologische Beschreibungsperspektive in das semasiologische Darstellungsprinzip. Das Wörterbuch zum Schulddiskurs ist als Belegwörterbuch angelegt. Daher wird der Gebrauch jedes Lemmas ausführlich dokumentiert. Eine Einleitung erläutert die lexikographischen Prinzipien des Wörterbuchs. Sie beschreibt, was ein Diskurswörterbuch ist und welchen Platz es in der Wörterbuchlandschaft hat. Darüber hinaus werden die Texte, aus denen es erarbeitet wurde, vorgestellt, und der Aufbau der Artikel wird erklärt. Es folgt ein ausführliches Quellenverzeichnis und die Angabe von Sekundärliteratur. Lemmalisten, die den Bestand des Wörterbuchs differenziert nach den Diskursbeteiligten aufführen, schließen die Einleitung ab.