Identity creation and the culture of contrition

Recasting ‘normality’ in the Berlin Republic

Bibliographic Data

ID6262185
AuthorsKarl Wilds (University of Sheffield, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume9
Issue1
Pages83-102
Publication date2000-04-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGerman Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-4008 • E-ISSN: 1743-8993
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09644000008404581
OpenAlexW2008200165
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited6

This paper considers transformations in the concept of national identity post‐unification. In particular, it is interested in examining the changed status of the NS past in contemporary formulations of national identity. Whilst during the Historikerstreit conservative thinkers predicated the plea for conventional patriotism upon a ‘normalisation’ or ‘reladvisation’ of the NS past, left‐liberal discourse based the case for a post‐national Verfassungspatriotismus upon the critical engagement with the NS period. The collapse of the Cold War political framework has profoundly altered the polarised discourse over the German past and during the 1990s the critical consciousness of National Socialism became a central tenet of contemporary formulations of national identity. The paper attempts to place the contemporary discourse on national identity within a broader historical context and to consider reasons for recent transformations in perceptions of the German national past

Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · German · Identity (music · National consciousness · National identity · Nationalism · Patriotism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European history and politics · Gender Studies · German History and Society · History · Law · Philosophy

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