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A Social Psychological Search for Traces

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Authors:
  1. Wolfgang Frindte

    1. Institut of Communication Research, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany

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  2. Ina Frindte

    1. Jena, Germany

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  • A social psychological view of a post-factual age
  • Questions about shelters, holding areas and other psychological Special features
  • The great narratives still exist

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction: The Foucault Pendulum and the Search for the Fixed Point

    • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
    Pages 1-8

  3. Of Threats Great and Small – Memories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. The End of Cosiness

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 11-15

    3. Insecurities: From the End of the GDR

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 17-33

    4. German Angst: After the Honeymoon

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 35-40

    5. “The Boys Are Back in Town”: Threat to Democracy

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 41-50

    6. Changing Times – “…The Times They Are a Changing” (Bob Dylan, 1964)

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 51-65

  4. Threats 2.0: Post-factual and Factual Stories

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. Fake News and Three Stories

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 69-73

    3. In the Post-factual Age?

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 75-83

    4. Factual and Fake News on Climate Change

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 85-88

    5. “Play It Again, Sam”: From the Clash of Civilizations

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 89-99

    6. Media and Prejudices

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 101-118

    7. The Impact of Social Media

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 119-125

  5. The Great Narratives Still Exist

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Reminder of the Meta-Narratives

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 129-134

    3. Back to the Roots: Fundamentalisms Offer Support and Threaten the Foundations

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 135-156

    4. “But Otherwise But Otherwise. All Lies!” (Rio Reiser, 1986) – From the Charm of Conspiracy Theories

      • Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte
      Pages 157-164

  6. Shelters, Holding Areas and Other Psychological Features

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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About this book

In the summer of 2018, the authors of the book stood in the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. They marvelled at the Foucault pendulum, which made its circular movements on a long rope under the dome. Like Casaubon in Umberto Eco's book The Foucault Pendulum, the authors were amazed and wondered what could be at the ideal end of the thread pendulum. The fixed point that could give us support and security in an uncertain world and difficult times? What uncertainties, what times or even what threats are we actually talking about? Where can we find the fixed points, the safe spaces of our lives? This book deals with these and other questions. The authors found inspiration for the book in Umberto Eco. And so it is also a homage to Eco. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut of Communication Research, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany

    Wolfgang Frindte

  • Jena, Germany

    Ina Frindte

About the authors

Wolfgang Frindte, Prof. i. R. Dr. phil. habil., graduate psychologist (Friedrich Schiller University Jena 1974), 1981 doctorate and 1986 habilitation. From 2008 to 2017 Head of the Department of Communication Psychology at the Institute of Communication Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena. 1998-2005 Visiting Professor for Communication and Social Psychology at Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck. February to April 2004 Fellow at the Bucerius Institute at the University of Haifa (Israel). Main research interests: Terrorism research, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, right-wing extremism, media and violence. Ina Frindte, graduate physicist (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena 1977), 1977-1981 scientific assistant at the research center of Carl Zeiss Jena. 1981-1991 project manager for hospital and ophthalmic optics (Carl Zeiss Jena). 1991-2018 senior manager for medical technology (Analytik Jena AG). Realization of projects in Germany, Europe and Asia, among others.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Support in Times of No Support

  • Book Subtitle: A Social Psychological Search for Traces

  • Authors: Wolfgang Frindte, Ina Frindte

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-38637-5

  • Publisher: Springer Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, part of Springer Nature 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-38636-8Published: 02 January 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-38637-5Published: 01 January 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 283

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Popular Science in Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology

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