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Cultural Memory and Western Civilization

Functions, Media, Archives

By: Aleida Assmann

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Cultural Memory and Western Civilization

Functions, Media, Archives

By: Aleida Assmann

This book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, offering a comprehensive overview of its history, forms and functions.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521764378

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Is Time out of Joint?

On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime

By: Aleida Assmann

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Is Time out of Joint?

On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime

By: Aleida Assmann

Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future—and their relationship to the present—been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse. In this provocative book, Aleida Assmann argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation. To understand this profound cultural crisis, she reconstructs the rise and fall of what she calls "time regime of modernity" that underpins notions of modernization and progress, a shared understanding that is now under threat. Is Time Out of Joint? assesses the deep change in the temporality of modern Western culture as it relates to our historical experience, historical theory, and our life-world of shared experience, explaining what we have both gained and lost during this profound transformation.

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Cornell University Press

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1501742450

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Shadows of Trauma

Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity

By: Aleida Assmann

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Shadows of Trauma

Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity

By: Aleida Assmann

The book traces the process of creating of a new German memory of the Holocaust after the fall of the Wall. Combining theoretical analysis with historical case studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues out of which Germany's new 'memory culture' emerged as a collective project and work in progress"--

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0823267288

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9780823267286

Is Time out of Joint?

On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime

By: Aleida Assmann

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On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime

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Cultural Memory and Western Civilization

Functions, Media, Archives

By: Aleida Assmann

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By: Aleida Assmann

This book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, offering a comprehensive overview of its history, forms and functions.

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The Political Theology of Paul

By: Jacob Taubes,Aleida Assmann

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The Political Theology of Paul

By: Jacob Taubes,Aleida Assmann

This highly original interpretation of Paul by the Jewish philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes was presented in a number of lectures held in Heidelberg toward the end of his life, and was regarded by him as his "spiritual testament. Taubes engages with classic Paul commentators, including Karl Barth, but also situates the Pauline text in the context of Freud, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, Scholem, and Rosenzweig. In his distinctive argument for the apocalyptic-revolutionary potential of Romans, Taubes also takes issue with the "political theology advanced by the conservative Catholic jurist Carl Schmitt. Taubess reading has been crucial for a number of interpretations of political theology and of Paul--including those of Jan Assmann and Giorgio Agamben--and it belongs to a wave of fresh considerations of Pauls legacy (Boyarin, Lyotard, Badiou, Zîzêk). Finally, Taubess far-ranging lectures provide important insights into the singular experiences and views of this unconventional Jewish intellectual living in post-Holocaust Germany.

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Stanford University Press

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0804733457

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From Popular Goethe to Global Pop

The Idea of the West Between Memory and (dis)empowerment

By: Ines Detmers,Birte Heidemann

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The Idea of the West Between Memory and (dis)empowerment

By: Ines Detmers,Birte Heidemann

This essay collection embarks on a historical voyage into the idea of the West, while contextualising its relevance to the contemporary discourses on cultural difference. Although the idea of the West predates both colonial and Orientalist projects, it has been radically reshaped by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the end of the Cold War and the 9/11 attacks. In the wake of these developments, this collection attends to the nebulous paradigm shifts that account for a reconfiguration of the conventional coordinates of the West (West vs. Rest, Orient vs. Occident). The essays featured in this collection draw upon a wide range of theories from a comparative perspective. Taken together, the collection covers a vast terrain of textual and non-textual sources, including novels, political and poetological programs, video-clips and hypertexts, while exploring the formal-aesthetic representations of the West from interdisciplinary perspectives as diverse as German classicism, (post-)modern Britain, Canada, China, Ireland and the postcolonial world.

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Brill Rodopi

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9042037490

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9789042037496

Book's by Aleida Assmann

Cultural Memory and Western Civilization

Cultural Memory and Western Civilization

Is Time out of Joint?

Is Time out of Joint?

Shadows of Trauma

Shadows of Trauma

Is Time out of Joint?

Is Time out of Joint?

Cultural Memory and Western Civilization

Cultural Memory and Western Civilization

The Political Theology of Paul

The Political Theology of Paul

From Popular Goethe to Global Pop

From Popular Goethe to Global Pop

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