Culture and crisis : the case of Germany and Sweden / edited by Nina Witoszek and Lars Trägårdh.

"This volume was inspired by the seminars of the project Gemenskap at the European University in Florence, and in particular by the conference on 'Crisis in Germany and Scandinavia' that took place in Pratolino in September 1997"--P. [ix].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240) and index.

Some questions concerning the conceptual history of "crisis" / Reinhart Koselleck -- The institutionalization of modernity : shocks and crises in Germany and Sweden / Erik Ringmar -- Moral community and the crisis of the Enlightenment : Sweden and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s / Nina Witoszek -- Crisis and the politics of national community : Germany and Sweden, 1933/1994 / Lars Trägårdh -- Interpreting the Holocaust : crisis of modernity or crisis of German ideology? / Benjamin Lapp -- Politics and catastrophe : why is the world so obsessed with German history? / Manfred Henningsen -- Race, nation, and folk : on the repressed memory of World War II in Sweden and its hidden categories / Piero Colla -- Crisis : the road to happiness? / Yvonne Hirdman -- The crisis of consensus in postwar Sweden / Göran Rosenberg -- Political modernity's critical juncture in the course of the French revolution / Robert Wokler.