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SUMMARY:[Historikertag 2021] End-of-life Battles of Interpretation – On the Dialectics of Individualization and Standardization Surrounding Death, Grief, and Inheritance in the 20th century
DESCRIPTION:The death of a human being invariably means that a boundary is drawn between the Before and the After. Delineating the transition between these two sides has given rise to numerous interpretive conflicts, especially in the course of the 20thcentury: Precisely when does human life end? What constitutes a sufficient grieving process? And how are legacies – both immaterial and material – to be apportioned? The answers to these questions varied significantly and were modified repeatedly. Against this background, this panel will examine the spheres of dying, grieving and inheriting by asking which agents (e.g. the state, physicians, economists, clergymen, lawyers and relatives) claimed competencies, which ideas of “proper” behavior were generated, and how all this influenced actual practice. In other words: How was the end of life organized during the 20th century? One goal is to bring together the various strands of research on death, grief and inheritance that are markedly isolated from one another. So far, the methodology used in these individual fields has primarily been dominated by one-sided approaches via law and administrative history (inheritance), medical history (dying) and the history of mentality (grief). With the help of historico-cultural research on transitions and liminalities, these fields can be brought together in a dialog. In this way it becomes possible to adequately analyze the interpretation conflicts that appear at life’s end as well as undertake a historical classification of contemporary social debates. The panel’s other goal is to demonstrate the enhanced value of thanatological enquiry for Modern and Contemporary History, which have so far mostly ignored this topic, although many distinctive social developments and changes of the 20thcentury were concentrated at the end of life, for example the relationship between public and private spheres and the processes of economization, subjectivation and standardization.
Der Beitrag End-of-life Battles of Interpretation – On the Dialectics of Individualization and Standardization Surrounding Death, Grief, and Inheritance in the 20th century erschien zuerst auf Historikertag 2021.
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