Gegenwartsbewältigung [Overcoming the Present]

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ID21747341
AuthorsMax Czollek (Berkeley College), Jon Cho‐Polizzi (Berkeley College), Jon Cho-Polizzi
Year2020
Volume12
Issue2
Publication date2020-03-30
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransit (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1551-9627 • E-ISSN: 1551-9627
PublisherCalifornia Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5070/t7122047484
OpenAlexW3013369330
LanguageEN
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I’m used to being solicited as a Jewish author. Or as I prefer to call it: a Jew-author. And now I’m already in the thick of things. Because in this text, I’ll be investigating how normalized understandings of belonging and the return of rightwing thought are intertwined. I contend that these understandings are manifest in the demand for integration whose all-but-universal presence is the reason I describe this as an integration paradigm. And I’d like to explain why I believe that Gegenwartsbewältigung [overcoming the present][1] is an appropriate counterstrategy. This text, then, is a kind of assembly kit for the construction of an alternative to the integration paradigm. But it’s up to you, dear reader, to make something out of it. [1] A play on the much-lauded German (World War 2-related) memory culture of “overcoming / coming to terms with the past” [ Vergangenheitsbewältigung ]

German · Linguistics · Sociology · German History and Society · German legal, social, and political studies · Literature and Cultural Memory · Philosophy · Psychology

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