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Author Huyssen, Andreas

Title Twilight Memories : Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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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
Subject Memory in literature.
German literature -- History and criticism
HISTORY -- Europe -- Germany.
Intellectual life
Civilization
German literature
Historiography
Memory in literature
Deutsch
Gedächtnis
Geschichtsdenken
Intellektueller
Kollektives Gedächtnis
Literatur
Zivilisation
Postmodernisme.
Collectief geheugen.
Culturele identiteit.
Mémoire dans la littérature.
Politique et littérature.
Politique et littérature Allemagne.
SUBJECT Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Historiography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054595
Germany -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054607
Germany -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054483
Subject Germany
Deutschland
Allemagne -- Vie intellectuelle.
Allemagne -- Civilisation.
Allemagne -- 1933-1945 -- Historiographie.
Genre/Form History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136042225
1136042229
9780203610213
0203610210