Nina Witoszek is Professor of Cultural History at Oslo University.

Introduction
Nina Witoszek and Lars Trägårdh

Chapter 1. Some Questions Concerning the Conceptual History of "Crisis"
Reinhart Koselleck

Chapter 2. The Institutionalization of Modernity: Shocks and Crises in Germany and Sweden
Erik Ringmar

Chapter 3. Moral Community and the Crisis of the Enlightenment: Sweden and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s
Nina Witoszek

Chapter 4. Crisis and the Politics of National Community: Germany and Sweden, 1933-1994
Lars Trägårdh

Chapter 5. Interpreting the Holocaust: Crisis of Modernity or Crisis of German Ideology?
Benjamin Lapp

Chapter 6. Politics and Catastrophe: Why Is the World So Obsessed with German History?
Manfred Henningsen

Chapter 7. Race, Nation, and Folk: On the Repressed Memory of World War II in Sweden and Its Hidden Categories
Piero Colla

Chapter 8. Crisis: The Road to Happiness?
Yvonne Hirdman

Chapter 9. The Crisis of Consensus in Postwar Sweden
Göran Rosenberg

Chapter 10. Political Modernity's Critical Juncture in the Course of the French Revolution
Robert Wokler

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index