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Making Secular Atmospheres
The Cathedral of Light at the Nazi Party Rallies, 1936–1938
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The idea of atmospheres as spatially spilled emotions with the power to bodily move people has been the German contribution to the affective turn in academic discourse. In this article, I discuss Hermann Schmitz’ and Gernot Böhme’s ideas on the reception and production of atmospheres in order to argue that their conceptualization tells a “substraction story” that characterizes the secular age for Charles Taylor. The emotional forces that move the felt body [German: Leib] became atmospheres only once the gods were discounted. Both Schmitz and Böhme refer to the explicit creation of atmospheres in National-Socialist politics, and I present the “Cathedral of Light” performance of the Nazi Party Rallies as paradigmatic for the making of secular atmospheres. On this basis, I discuss the use value of atmospheres for the analysis of material secularities, and its fascist affinities, at least in Schmitz’ rendition.
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Making Secular Atmospheres
The Cathedral of Light at the Nazi Party Rallies, 1936–1938
in Secular StudiesSearch for other papers by Magnus Echtler in
Current site
Google Scholar
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Abstract
The idea of atmospheres as spatially spilled emotions with the power to bodily move people has been the German contribution to the affective turn in academic discourse. In this article, I discuss Hermann Schmitz’ and Gernot Böhme’s ideas on the reception and production of atmospheres in order to argue that their conceptualization tells a “substraction story” that characterizes the secular age for Charles Taylor. The emotional forces that move the felt body [German: Leib] became atmospheres only once the gods were discounted. Both Schmitz and Böhme refer to the explicit creation of atmospheres in National-Socialist politics, and I present the “Cathedral of Light” performance of the Nazi Party Rallies as paradigmatic for the making of secular atmospheres. On this basis, I discuss the use value of atmospheres for the analysis of material secularities, and its fascist affinities, at least in Schmitz’ rendition.
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