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Article: Heroes and Heroism in German Culture. Essays in Honor of Jost Hermand, April 2000.(Book Review)
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- Journal of European Studies
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- December 1, 2002
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Heroes and Heroism in German Culture. Essays in Honor of Jost Hermand, April 2000. Edited by Stephen Brockmann and James Steakley. (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur, 145.) Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2001. $47.
Heroism is all the rage just now in academic circles, as Robert A. Segal's Hero Myths (Oxford, 2000) shows. But the conception of heroism, generally and in this volume, has shifted a long way from Thomas Carlyle's identification of 'sincere belief' as its essence (On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, 1841). The essays in this volume were originally presented as papers at the thirty-second Wisconsin Workshop held in ...