{"product_id":"hermann-selchow-germany-a-nation-in-a-dilemma-essays-9783384670663","title":"Germany: A Nation in a Dilemma - Essays","description":"Germany - A Nation in a Dilemma - Almost a Declaration of Love\n\u003cbr\u003e\nGermans seem to love their defeats like other nations love their victories. Why? This nation, which licks its history like a wound and takes pleasure in doing so, is the subject of a book that dissects the dilemma of an entire culture: \"Germany - A Nation in a Dilemma - Almost a Declaration of Love.\"\n\u003cbr\u003e\nGermany - a country that has turned failure into an art form. The author of this provocative work, Hermann Selchow, dissects the German soul with the precision of a pathologist and the tenderness of a lover. The result: a literary X-ray of a nation, sometimes exaggerated, but always close to the truth.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe famous German thoroughness reveals itself as systematic self-dismantling, the drive for perfection as paralysis through analysis. Coming to terms with the past becomes a denial of the present. A people that wears its neuroses like medals and forgets how to live.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut this book is no cheap voyeurism of German defects. It is a diagnosis with heart, a criticism without contempt. The author, himself a member of this people, not only exposes the mechanisms of German self-sabotage but also demonstrates its productive power. For those who destroy themselves so virtuosically also master the art of renewal.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nGerman readers will feel caught out - and perhaps for the first time, be able to smile at their own abysses. Foreigners will gain insight into the psychic landscape of a people who guard their traumas like relics. Sociologists and psychologists may find material for years of analysis.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe book is written in the style of a loving postmortem: perceptive without coldness, ironic without cynicism. A rare balance between science and humanity.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe question for the future remains: Can the Germans overcome their self-destruction? Or is it perhaps their most precious asset? The author offers no easy answers, but the right questions.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Germany - A Nation in a Dilemma\" is therapy as literature, social criticism as an act of love. A book for all who want to understand Germany - and for Germans who finally want to tolerate themselves.","brand":"tredition","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53709186105686,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9783384670663_1.jpg?v=1778871634","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/hermann-selchow-germany-a-nation-in-a-dilemma-essays-9783384670663","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}