Identity and the Limits of Comparison
| Autor: | Ian Varcoe |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Postmodernity
Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Modernity General Social Sciences Identity (social science) 06 humanities and the arts language.human_language 060104 history German Politics The Holocaust Aesthetics Law language 0601 history and archaeology Ideology Sociology media_common Theme (narrative) |
| Zdroj: | Theory, Culture & Society. 15:57-72 |
| ISSN: | 1460-3616 0263-2764 |
| Popis: | The reception of Zygmunt Bauman in Germany can be understood against the background of the two great public debates that have dominated post-war West German cultural, political and intellectual life, that over the Sonderweg thesis, and the Historikerstreit. This reception is analysed. It was in terms of the questions those debates had raised and the positions taken by the participants in them that Bauman's writings on modernity and postmodernity, and the Holocaust in particular, were received. A universal theme was involved. The legitimate use of historical understanding was at stake, with identity and comparison being central issues for a set of positions, a field of forces in which Bauman is the `odd one out'. Bauman is an outsider to the debates. He is someone with stimulating ideas which sometimes appear paradoxical, and which drove wedges between established ideological alignments. To the Germans, he seems, understandably, an interesting and puzzling figure. |
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