Jeffrey K. Olick (USA University of Virginia)

The Politics of Regret

On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility

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Produktbeschreibung

Memory can foster any number of things - social solidarity, nostalgia, civil war - but it always depends on both the nature of the past and the cultures doing the remembering. This book is a collection of essays on a range of memory related issues.

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Olick looks at a range of memory related issues, how catastrophic, terrible pasts â Nazi Germany, apartheid South Africa â are remembered, but he is particularly concerned with the role that memory plays in social structures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780415956833
• ISBN-10: 0415956838
• Artikelnr.: 22781038

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey K. Olick is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Virginia. His previous books include "In the House of the Hangman: The Agonies of German Defeat, 1943-1949" (Chicago 2005) and "States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection" (Duke 2003).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part 1: The Sociology of Memory 2. Collective Memory: The
Two Cultures 3. Collective Memory and Cultural Constraint: Holocaust Myth
and Rationality in the Federal Republic of Germany 4. Genre Memories and
Memory Genres: A Dialogical Analysis of May 8th, 1945 Commemorations in the
Federal Republic of Germany 5. Figurations of Memory: A Process-Relational
Approach Part 2: The Politics of Regret 6. The Politics of Regret:
Analytical Frames 7. The Value of Regret: Lessons from and for Germany 8.
Collective Memory and Chronic Differentiation: Historicity and the Public
Sphere 9. From Theodicy to Ressentiment: Trauma and the Ages of
Compensation