How Can I Maintain my Own Identity Within a Crowd? Suggestions From Totalitarian Experiences
How can the individual preserve his identity within a crowd? How can he/she counter the threats and the temptations of the mass phenomenon? In the following, these questions are answered, correctly based on two contrasting and complementary situations and approaches: on the one hand, the beginnings...
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| description | How can the individual preserve his identity within a crowd? How can he/she counter the threats and the temptations of the mass phenomenon? In the following, these questions are answered, correctly based on two contrasting and complementary situations and approaches: on the one hand, the beginnings of the Soviet Union in the 1920s as manifested in everyday life in Moscow (journalistic-systemic view). On the other hand, on biographies of NSDAP members in Germany in the 1920s (biographical approach). The theoretical background provides philosophical treatises from this period (Elias Canetti, José Ortega y Gasset, and Karl Jaspers). Because the situations characterize starting points of totalitarian system (Sowjet-Union/Nazi-Regime), they allow transformations into current and future experiences of collective and group pressure in private and business life, where people experience similar challenges and temptations that are more elementary. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-9cfdb45e4d5a4eb688de6624ca39d2ac2022-12-22T03:45:31ZengSciendoDiscourse and Communication for Sustainable Education2255-75472022-12-011329110710.2478/dcse-2022-0021How Can I Maintain my Own Identity Within a Crowd? Suggestions From Totalitarian ExperiencesFranzenburg Geert0University of Muenster, Muenster, GermanyHow can the individual preserve his identity within a crowd? How can he/she counter the threats and the temptations of the mass phenomenon? In the following, these questions are answered, correctly based on two contrasting and complementary situations and approaches: on the one hand, the beginnings of the Soviet Union in the 1920s as manifested in everyday life in Moscow (journalistic-systemic view). On the other hand, on biographies of NSDAP members in Germany in the 1920s (biographical approach). The theoretical background provides philosophical treatises from this period (Elias Canetti, José Ortega y Gasset, and Karl Jaspers). Because the situations characterize starting points of totalitarian system (Sowjet-Union/Nazi-Regime), they allow transformations into current and future experiences of collective and group pressure in private and business life, where people experience similar challenges and temptations that are more elementary.https://doi.org/10.2478/dcse-2022-0021collectiveindividualmasspersonnational-socialismsoviet union philosophical remarks |
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| title | How Can I Maintain my Own Identity Within a Crowd? Suggestions From Totalitarian Experiences |
| title_full | How Can I Maintain my Own Identity Within a Crowd? Suggestions From Totalitarian Experiences |
| title_fullStr | How Can I Maintain my Own Identity Within a Crowd? Suggestions From Totalitarian Experiences |
| title_full_unstemmed | How Can I Maintain my Own Identity Within a Crowd? Suggestions From Totalitarian Experiences |
| title_short | How Can I Maintain my Own Identity Within a Crowd? Suggestions From Totalitarian Experiences |
| title_sort | how can i maintain my own identity within a crowd suggestions from totalitarian experiences |
| topic | collective individual mass person national-socialism soviet union philosophical remarks |
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