Crisis and Reorientation: Introduction
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Crisis and Reorientation: Introduction. / Baark, Sigurd; Põder, Christine Svinth-Værge.
Crisis and Reorientation: Karl Barth’s Römerbrief in the Cultural and Intellectual Context of Post WWI Europe. ed. / Christine Svinth-Værge Põder; Sigurd Baark. Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. p. 1-11.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Crisis and Reorientation: Introduction
AU - Baark, Sigurd
AU - Põder, Christine Svinth-Værge
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Tensions and contradictory movements, shock and resignation marked the European cultural and intellectual epoch following World War I, but these phenomena were accompanied by a vigorous drive for reorientation. In such varying developments as the November Revolution, surrealism and the post-World War I phase of expressionism, soldier romanticism and Spengler’s Der Untergang des Abendlandes, these contradictions are apparent and make characterizing the time a challenge. Labelling this ambiguous situation a “crisis”, a term stemming from ancient medicine, seems to indicate that society is either an organism in need of healing or that it is in a state of struggle that must be resolved by a decision, as pointed out by Dietrich Korsch. The term “crisis” is however commonly universalised to designate a circumstance that challenges interpretation and orientation (Korsch 2013, p. 95). Applied at a societal scale, the idea of a crisis indicates a loss of orientation, affecting both a society’s general resilience and ability to navigate through social transformations and accordingly the proper interpretation of such a situation.
AB - Tensions and contradictory movements, shock and resignation marked the European cultural and intellectual epoch following World War I, but these phenomena were accompanied by a vigorous drive for reorientation. In such varying developments as the November Revolution, surrealism and the post-World War I phase of expressionism, soldier romanticism and Spengler’s Der Untergang des Abendlandes, these contradictions are apparent and make characterizing the time a challenge. Labelling this ambiguous situation a “crisis”, a term stemming from ancient medicine, seems to indicate that society is either an organism in need of healing or that it is in a state of struggle that must be resolved by a decision, as pointed out by Dietrich Korsch. The term “crisis” is however commonly universalised to designate a circumstance that challenges interpretation and orientation (Korsch 2013, p. 95). Applied at a societal scale, the idea of a crisis indicates a loss of orientation, affecting both a society’s general resilience and ability to navigate through social transformations and accordingly the proper interpretation of such a situation.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-27677-4_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-27677-4_1
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9783031276767
SP - 1
EP - 11
BT - Crisis and Reorientation
A2 - Põder, Christine Svinth-Værge
A2 - Baark, Sigurd
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
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