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.
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Though my shelves sag beneath the weight of excellent new books on what I have come to think of as collected memory, one title that especially stands out is Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia by Andreas Huyssen...It offers lucid reevaluations of how public memory has been forged in postmodern European culture by examining the way writers...artists...and movements...negotiate history and memory in their works. -- James Young, University of Massachusetts
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Andreas Huyssen is a Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
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violet endives, enlightened false consciousness, satirical laughter, memorial culture, cynical reason, enlightened modernity, real existing socialism, utopian energies, fascist past, utopian imagination, fragmented body, museum practices, constitutional patriotism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anselm Kiefer, West German, Christa Wolf, United States, Federal Republic, New York, Third Reich, East German, World War, Critique of Cynical Reason, East European, Helmut Kohl, Neue Geschichten, Peter Weiss, George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Karl Heinz Bohrer, Soviet Union, Walter Benjamin, John Cage, Paul Celan, The Storm of Steel, Albert Speer, East Berlin, Eastern Europe New!
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violet endives, enlightened false consciousness, satirical laughter, memorial culture, cynical reason, enlightened modernity, real existing socialism, utopian energies, fascist past, utopian imagination, fragmented body, museum practices, constitutional patriotism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Anselm Kiefer, West German, Christa Wolf, United States, Federal Republic, New York, Third Reich, East German, World War, Critique of Cynical Reason, East European, Helmut Kohl, Neue Geschichten, Peter Weiss, George Maciunas, Dick Higgins, Karl Heinz Bohrer, Soviet Union, Walter Benjamin, John Cage, Paul Celan, The Storm of Steel, Albert Speer, East Berlin, Eastern Europe New!
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- Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Max Horkheimer on 4 pages
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- Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction) by Nancy J. Peterson on 7 pages
- Writing Against Boundaries: Nationality, Ethnicity and Gender in the German-speaking Context (Amsterdamer Publikationen zur Sprache und Literatur 153) by Barbara Kosta on 6 pages
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