{"product_id":"germany-a-nation-in-a-dilemma-almost-a-declaration-of-love-9798231670505","title":"Germany - A Nation in a Dilemma Almost a Declaration of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hermann Selchow\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Hermann Selchow\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Hermann Selchow\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGermany - A Nation in a Dilemma - Almost a Declaration of Love\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermans 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGermany - 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerman 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is written in the style of a loving postmortem: perceptive without coldness, ironic without cynicism. A rare balance between science and humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46397966876823,"sku":"9798231670505","price":2084.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798231670505.webp?v=1769042744","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/germany-a-nation-in-a-dilemma-almost-a-declaration-of-love-9798231670505","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}