Siobhan Kattago

Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe

The Persistence of the Past

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through reflecting on the legacy of totalitarianism and the revolutions of 1989, it becomes clear that the issue is less of whether one should remember, but rather how to internalize the various lessons of the past for the future of Europe. Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe thus offers the reader occasions upon which to take stock of different but overlapping contours of past and present in contemporary Europe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781409436379
• ISBN-10: 1409436373
• Artikelnr.: 42349331

Autorenporträt

Siobhan Kattago is Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She is the editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies and the author of Ambiguous Memory: The Nazi Past and German National Identity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Slippery Slope of Memory
Chapter 2 Agreeing to Disagree on the Legacies of Recent History
Chapter 3 The Ethics of Seeing: Photographs of Germany at the End of the War
Chapter 4 The Sound of Silence: Reflections on Bernhard Schlink and Gesine Schwan
Chapter 5 Living in the Third Person: The Uncanny Hans Schneider/Schwerte
Chapter 6 Goodbye to Grand Narratives? Moving the Soviet War Memorial in Tallinn
Chapter 7 Memory, Pluralism and the Agony of Politics
Chapter 8 The Fata Morgana of Revolution
postscript Postscript