The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method - Couverture rigide

Livre 18 sur 27: Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning

Olick, Jeffrey K.

 
9780226386492: The Sins of the Fathers: Germany, Memory, Method
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 022638649X ISBN 13 : 9780226386492
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2016

Synopsis

National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over--the catalog of failures, injustices, and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, could create significant problems for a country trying to move on and take action in the present. Yet denial and forgetting carry costs as well.

Nowhere has this precarious balance been more potent, or important, than in the Federal Republic of Germany, where the devastation and atrocities of two world wars have weighed heavily in virtually every moment and aspect of political life. The Sins of the Fathers confronts that difficulty head-on, exploring the variety of ways that Germany's leaders since 1949 have attempted to meet this challenge, with a particular focus on how those approaches have changed over time. Jeffrey K. Olick asserts that other nations are looking to Germany as an example of how a society can confront a dark past--casting Germany as our model of difficult collective memory.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jeffrey K. Olick is professor of sociology and history at the University of Virginia.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022638649X
ISBN 13 
9780226386492
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
496
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