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Luca Di Blasi: Die Politik der Schuld. Über Deutsche Identitätspolitik

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Luca Di Blasi: The politics of guilt. On German identity politics

Whatever shape your heart is in

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The terrorist attack by Hamas and the subsequent retaliatory war by the Israeli army have shaken up the moral coordinates of German remembrance policy. The German-Italian philosopher Luca Di Blasi subjects the German culture of remembrance, long regarded as exemplary, to a fundamental critique. According to him, a national community that had become discredited and untenable after 1945 was able to survive in the name of guilt as a "community of perpetrators". After all, the talk of "German guilt" not only set the course for a progressive identity policy that was attractive to collective victims of discrimination and persecution. An alternative for former accomplices and accomplices on the perpetrator side also appeared: the preservation of a collective identity in the name of recognized guilt. This "negative identity politics" became effective in post-war Germany.

Drawing on different ways of dealing with collective guilt in Judaism and Christianity, Di Blasi shows how the recognition of guilt became a new form of national identity politics after 1945 - and how we can overcome its crisis.

Luca Di Blasi is Professor of Philosophy at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Bern.

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