Have the Intellectuals Failed? On the Sociopolitical Claims and the Influence of Literary Intellectuals in West Germany

Vogt, Jochen; Brockmann, Stephen

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“…The West German student movements were not only propelled by these political issues, the student protests were also accompanied by the construction of a vital counterculture. Vogt and Brockmann (1993) have argued that the West German student movements were essentially a cultural revolution which made decisive contributions toward opening up West German life, and which led to a deepened democratization of West German society. The authors quote historian Christian Meier regarding this achievement of the student movements: After long years of denial, the long pent-up need for discussion and intellectual influence began to be satisfied in the 1960s.…”

Section: The West German Counterculture and The Role Of Movement Scholarsmentioning

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Wounds That Never Heal: On Anselm Kiefer and the Moral Innocence of the West German Student Movements and the West German New Left

Peterson

2012

Cultural Sociology

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The West German student movements, the student generation of Anselm Kiefer, were a part of the West German awakening as to their collective guilt for the atrocities committed in the Second World War – the Germans-as-perpetrators debate. They entered this debate with a proclamation of innocence, which Anselm Kiefer did not share. In this article I use the empirical lens of biography and the artistic performances of moral self-incrimination in order to understand the collective moral dilemmas posited by the West German students’ proclamation of innocence, their position to maintain a moral high ground in their struggle. Kiefer provoked the German Left by recovering the horror of the Holocaust that the Germans in the post-war period (the 1968 students included) mostly wanted just to go away. Movement artist scholars not only challenge the wider society with their truth-claims, they challenge the movement itself, extending the cognitive boundaries for what can be acknowledged at a given moment in the movement’s history.

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Section: The West German Counterculture and The Role Of Movement Scholarsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…… In spite of and because of the student unrest, what followed was a higher level of liberality, democracy, and political culture. (Vogt and Brockmann, 1993: 8)…”

Section: The West German Counterculture and The Role Of Movement Scholarsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wounds That Never Heal: On Anselm Kiefer and the Moral Innocence of the West German Student Movements and the West German New Left

Peterson

2012

Cultural Sociology

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Have the Intellectuals Failed? On the Sociopolitical Claims and the Influence of Literary Intellectuals in West Germany

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Wounds That Never Heal: On Anselm Kiefer and the Moral Innocence of the West German Student Movements and the West German New Left

Wounds That Never Heal: On Anselm Kiefer and the Moral Innocence of the West German Student Movements and the West German New Left

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