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Blandade känslor: fruktan och förtröstan förr och nu

In English

Författare

Redaktör

  • Arne Jönsson
  • Stephan Borgehammar
  • Per Beskov

Summary, in English

Mixed feelings: fear and consolation now and then (from the 17th to the 21st century). In Early Modern Swedish society a great amount of ideas, words and images were available to explain the earthly suffering. In the Lutheran practice of preaching, consolation, besides instruction and admonition, played an important role.

Today, our life is not as hard as our ancestors’ was. This has enabled us to distance ourselves from suffering, dying and death in our everyday lives. In fiction, however, risks, violence and death are frequently exploited as exciting and entertaining matters. The Late Modern individualistic ideology of Western welfare societies puts a great emphasis on experience and emotion. Still, only positive experiences such as pleasure and excitement are seen as a normal part of real life, while fear, sorrow and desperation are considered as problems to be solved by experts and institutions, medicine and social politics. In the secularized view of the world, suffering has lost its cosmological meaning and social legitimacy.

Publiceringsår

2008

Språk

Svenska

Sidor

549-557

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Förbistringar och förklaringar. Festskrift till Anders Piltz

Dokumenttyp

Del av eller Kapitel i bok

Förlag

Skåneförlaget

Ämne

  • History of Ideas

Nyckelord

  • emotions
  • fear
  • consolation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-91-87976-29-2