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Häberlen, Joachim C. (2018) The contemporary self in German History. Contemporary European History, 27 (4). pp. 674-692. doi:10.1017/S0960777318000218 ISSN 0960-7773.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777318000218
Abstract
The history of the subject, or, in a different parlance, genealogies of the self, has received increased attention in recent years. Numerous scholars, historians and cultural sociologists alike have inquired about the practices and discourses that shape the (post-)modern self. And while this is by no means an exclusively German debate – indeed, major influences come from French, British and Israeli scholarship –, it is a debate that is particularly thriving within German-speaking scholarship on recent (West) German history, perhaps in part due to how graduate training and networking function in German academia. Somewhat remarkably, East German subjectivities are barely ever addressed in this debate, which speaks to the fact that historiographies of East and West Germany are still rather separated, despite repeated calls to overcome this division. A possible historical (rather than historiographical) reason for this lack of interest that would deserve further inquiry might be that the self became important for historical actors in the Federal Republic during the 1970s, but not in East Germany. It would be equally interesting to know to what extent similar or different regimes of subjectivity emerged across the Iron Curtain and what happened to them after the end of communism – that is, if and how the ‘neoliberal’ regime of subjectivity that scholars have described for Western Germany spread to the East. Yet, these are open questions.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DD Germany P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Self in literature -- Germany, Germany -- History -- 21st century, Post-modernism -- In literature -- Germany | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Contemporary European History | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0960-7773 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | November 2018 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 27 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 674-692 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0960777318000218 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 February 2018 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 May 2018 |
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