Germany: A Nation in a Dilemma - Essays (eBook)
233 Seiten
tredition GmbH (Verlag)
978-3-384-67064-9 (ISBN)
Germans seem to love their defeats like other nations love their victories. Why? This nation, which licks its history like a wound and takes pleasure in doing so, is the subject of a book that dissects the dilemma of an entire culture: "Germany - A Nation in a Dilemma - Almost a Declaration of Love."
Germany - a country that has turned failure into an art form. The author of this provocative work, Hermann Selchow, dissects the German soul with the precision of a pathologist and the tenderness of a lover. The result: a literary X-ray of a nation, sometimes exaggerated, but always close to the truth.
The famous German thoroughness reveals itself as systematic self-dismantling, the drive for perfection as paralysis through analysis. Coming to terms with the past becomes a denial of the present. A people that wears its neuroses like medals and forgets how to live.
But this book is no cheap voyeurism of German defects. It is a diagnosis with heart, a criticism without contempt. The author, himself a member of this people, not only exposes the mechanisms of German self-sabotage but also demonstrates its productive power. For those who destroy themselves so virtuosically also master the art of renewal.
German readers will feel caught out – and perhaps for the first time, be able to smile at their own abysses. Foreigners will gain insight into the psychic landscape of a people who guard their traumas like relics. Sociologists and psychologists may find material for years of analysis.
The book is written in the style of a loving postmortem: perceptive without coldness, ironic without cynicism. A rare balance between science and humanity.
The question for the future remains: Can the Germans overcome their self-destruction? Or is it perhaps their most precious asset? The author offers no easy answers, but the right questions.
"Germany - A Nation in a Dilemma" is therapy as literature, social criticism as an act of love. A book for all who want to understand Germany – and for Germans who finally want to tolerate themselves.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.8.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Hamburg |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung | |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Recht / Steuern | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Coming to Terms with the Past • german Dilemma • German identity crisis • German Mentality • German neurosis • German perfectionism • german self-criticism • German self-destruction • german self-sabotage • Germany • Germany declaration of love • Germany social analysis |
| ISBN-10 | 3-384-67064-7 / 3384670647 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-384-67064-9 / 9783384670649 |
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