Germany, the First World War, and Cultural Trauma

Perspectives on a Lifeworld in Time of Catastrophe
Uses the concept of the lifeworld to explore how sociologist Eugen Rosenstock, revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, novelist Hermann Hesse, and artist Kthe Kollwitz navigated the catastrophic effects of the First World War in Germany.
Uses the concept of the lifeworld to explore how sociologist Eugen Rosenstock, revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, novelist Hermann Hesse, and artist Kthe Kollwitz navigated the catastrophic effects of the First World War in Germany.What happens when the deep assumptions used for making sense of things can no longer be relied on, when faith in the world itself comes into question? At such times, we speak of catastrophe, an experience of profound disorientation that challenges the very core of identity. This book analyzes how a quartet of figures-the sociologist Eugen Rosenstock, the revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg, the novelist Hermann Hesse, and the artist Kthe Kollwitz-r