Shame and the Challenges of Postwar Western Democracies

Authors

Lisa Koks University of Amsterdam
Natalie Scholz University of Amsterdam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.39.1.37363

Abstract

Author Biographies

Lisa Koks, University of Amsterdam

Lisa Koks is since 2018 affiliated with the University of Amsterdam as an external PhD student. Her research focuses on racial discourse and the mobilization of emotions in the decolonizing West.

Natalie Scholz, University of Amsterdam

Natalie Scholz is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Amsterdam. She works on the cultural history of the political in modern Europe (France and Germany) with a focus on symbolic representations, popular imaginations and their affective dimensions. In her book Die imaginierte Restauration (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 2006) she interpreted popular imaginations of the French Restoration Monarchy as cultural expressions of political feelings framed in a melodramatic mode. Currently she is working on a book project about the political meanings of everyday objects in postwar West Germany.

Published

2019-10-18

How to Cite

Koks, Lisa, and Natalie Scholz. 2019. “Shame and the Challenges of Postwar Western Democracies”. Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 39 (1):50-55. https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.39.1.37363.