Amnesie und Antizipation

In modern postwar orders (and disorders) the concept of democratic peace prescribes that losing parties remember defeat and accept blame in order to redeem themselves and receive amnesty. In addition, the winning side’s position is to be accepted as rightful, morally just, and inherently peaceable. However, the historian Reinhart Koselleck remarks that throughout history succeeding postwar transitions were creatively framed through three alternatives: first, noting down what really has happened (documentation); second, embedding war experience into larger historical frameworks in order to integrate and minimize the defeat (contextualization); and, third, denying the defeat by rewriting it (annihilation/reinterpretation). But groups who are likely to be defeated are already able to anticipate the modern constrictions on these alternatives during wartime. Our thesis is that the recent limiting of options for postwar arrangements is one key factor for both the emerging permanence of asymmetric, or so-called ‘new wars’, and the multitude of notoriously unstable postwar architectures

Koselleck, Reinhart, und Carl Schmitt (2019): Der Briefwechsel 1953–1983. Herausgegeben von Jan Eike Dunkhase

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Staatszombies: Sterbekulte, Leviathane und andere Goldene Kälber der jüngeren politischen Ikonologie

Sammelbesprechung zu: 1) Bredekamp, Horst: Theorie des Bildakts. Frankfurter Adorno-Vorlesungen. Frankfurt (Main): Suhrkamp 2013 [2010]. 2) Fleckner, Uwe; Warnke, Martin; Ziegler, Hendrik (Hrsg.): Handbuch der politischen Ikonographie, 2 Bde. München: C. H. Beck 2011. 3) Lochner, Hubert; Markantonatos, Adriana (Hrsg.): Reinhart Koselleck und die Politische Ikonologie. Berlin u.a.: Parthas 2013. 4) Manow, Philip: Politische Ursprungsphantasien: der Leviathan und sein Erbe. Konstanz: Konstanz University Press 2011

Die unsichtbare Hand des Staates: Literaturessay zu "Wie kommt der Wert in die Welt?" von Mariana Mazzucato

Mariana Mazzucato: Wie kommt der Wert in die Welt?: Von Schöpfern und Abschöpfern. Frankfurt / New York: Campus 2019. 978-3-593-44114-

Rüb, Friedbert W. (2020): Das Jahrhundert der Politik. Eine Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts im Licht ihrer Politikbegriffe

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