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. The book includes illustrations from contemporary Germany.
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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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As we approach the end of the twentieth century and with it the end of the millennium, our gaze turns backwards ever more frequently in an attempt to take stock and to assess where we stand in the course of time. Read the first page 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, Peter Weiss, Walter Benjamin, George Maciunas, Neue Geschichten, Dick Higgins, Karl Heinz Bohrer, Soviet Union, Paul Celan, Albert Speer, East Berlin, Eastern Europe, Final Solution, John Cage New!
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As we approach the end of the twentieth century and with it the end of the millennium, our gaze turns backwards ever more frequently in an attempt to take stock and to assess where we stand in the course of time. Read the first page 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, Peter Weiss, Walter Benjamin, George Maciunas, Neue Geschichten, Dick Higgins, Karl Heinz Bohrer, Soviet Union, Paul Celan, Albert Speer, East Berlin, Eastern Europe, Final Solution, John Cage New!
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- Critique of Cynical Reason (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 40) by Peter Sloterdijk on 11 pages
- Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan on 6 pages
- Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan on 6 pages
- Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Max Horkheimer on 5 pages
- Storm of Steel (Penguin Classics) by Ernst Jünger on page 130, page 132, and Back Matter
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- The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks by Philip Nel on 9 pages
- Against Amnesia: Contemporary Women Writers and the Crises of Historical Memory (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction) by Nancy J. Peterson on 7 pages
- Diaspora and Memory: Figures of Displacement in Contemporary Literature, Arts and Politics (Thamyris 13) (Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex & Race) by Marie-Aude Baronian; Stephan Besser; Yolande Jansen (Eds.) on 6 pages
- Experimental Ethnography: The Work of Film in the Age of Video by Catherine Russell on 5 pages
- Communities of Memory: On Witness, Identity, and Justice by W. James Booth on 5 pages
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