Jugend ohne Sinn?

Eine Spurensuche zu Sinnfragen der jungen Generation 1945-1949

edited by Wolfgang Braungart, Gabriele Guerra and Justus H. Ulbricht

Book cover: Jugend ohne Sinn?

Extent: 492 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Cultural Studies, German Studies, Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Jugendbewegung und Jugendkulturen - Jahrbuch

Series volume number: 2022.17

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(October 2022)

ISBN: 9783847115083

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $50.00

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In den ersten Nachkriegsjahren (1945-1949) stellte sich fur die junge Generation die Aufgabe, sich auch in Sinn-Fragen neu zu orientieren. Welche Verwustungen die NS-Zeit und der Krieg angerichtet hatten, war nicht zu ubersehen. Oder war das nur die Perspektive der Alteren, die sich wunschten, die Jugend moge es jetzt besser hinbekommen als sie selbst?


One would think that for ‘the youth’ there was a great need for meaning and comfort, for religion and “religioids” (Simmel), especially in the early post-war years. But was this really the case? The young generation in particular had to deal with an unprecedented “transcendental homelessness” (G. Lukacs). If it really did so! How did it deal with the question of guilt? Did it fall back on what had long been “tried and tested” in literature, philosophy, theology? Could the communal processes of the historical youth movement with its semantics still offer a space for socializing for the need for ideological affiliation? Did youth take on the character of a special milieu in order to distance itself from those who were responsible for the catastrophe? This volume deals with these and other questions.

  • Edited by Wolfgang Braungart
  • Edited by Gabriele Guerra
  • Edited by Justus H Ulbricht