Description |
1 online resource (303 pages) |
Contents |
Escape from amnesia: the museum as mass medium -- After the wall: the failure of German intellectuals -- Nation, race, and immigration: German identities after unification -- Memories of utopia -- Paris/childhood: the fragmented body in Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge -- Fortifying the heart -- totally: Ernst Jünger's armored texts -- Alexander Kluge: an analytic storyteller in the course of time -- Postenlightened cynicism: Diogenes as postmodern intellectual -- In the shadow of McLuhan: Baudrillard's theory of simulation -- Back to the future: Fluxus in context -- Anselm Kiefer: the terror of history, the temptation of myth -- Monuments and Holocaust memory in a media age |
Summary |
In this new collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past. The great paradox of our fin-de-siecle culture is that novelty is even more associated with memory than with future expectation. Drawing heavily on the dilemmas of contemporary Germany, Huyssen's discussion of cultural memory illustrates the nature of contemporary nationalism, the work of such artists and thinkers as Anselm Kiefer, Alexander Kluge, and Jean Baudrillard, and many others. Th |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index |
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Memory in literature.
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German literature -- History and criticism
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
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Intellectual life
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Civilization
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German literature
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Historiography
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Memory in literature
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Deutsch
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Gedächtnis
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Geschichtsdenken
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Intellektueller
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Literatur
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Zivilisation
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Postmodernisme.
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Collectief geheugen.
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Culturele identiteit.
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Mémoire dans la littérature.
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Politique et littérature.
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Politique et littérature Allemagne.
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SUBJECT |
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054595
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Germany -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054607
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Germany -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054483
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Germany
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Deutschland
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Allemagne -- Vie intellectuelle.
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Allemagne -- Civilisation.
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Allemagne -- 1933-1945 -- Historiographie.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781136042225 |
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1136042229 |
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9780203610213 |
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0203610210 |
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