Uffa Jensen
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Uffa Jensen
Uffa Jensen, born in 1969, teaches History at the Technical University of Berlin and is a researcher at their Center for Research on Antisemitism.
Uffa Jensen, born in 1969, teaches History at the Technical University of Berlin and is a researcher at their Center for Research on Antisemitism.
PUBLICATIONS
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Year of Publication: 2022
Uffa JensenYear of Publication: 2022
An Anti-Semitic Double Murder
On December 19, 1980, Shlomo Lewin, the former chairman of the Jewish community in Nuremberg, and his partner Frida Poeschke were shot dead in their house in Erlangen. Instead of pursuing the leads that led to the right-wing extremist group »Wehrsportgruppe Hoffmann«, investigators concentrated on Lewin’s social environment for a long time. The exact circumstances of the crime...
Year of Publication: 2019
Uffa JensenYear of Publication: 2019
How the Couch Came to Calcutta
At the end of the 19th century in Vienna, Sigmund Freud founded psychoanalysis. It developed into a global phenomenon in just a few decades. Concepts like »super-ego«, »narcissism« or »the Oedipus complex« have long been a part of our everyday speech. In order to understand this dynamic development, Uffa Jensen considers three cities which, in addition to Vienna, were of great importance for...
Year of Publication: 2017
Uffa JensenYear of Publication: 2017
The Politics of Rage
If we had a device for measuring the intensity of collective feelings, at the moment it would be in the red: in most of our political debates rational arguments and mutual respect have given way to fury, hate, and anxiety.
Uffa Jensen traces the origins of the politics of rage back into the 19th century and explains how these feelings of rejection function. In so...