Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time

ISBN-13: 9780367111007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 166 str.

Siobhan Kattago

Opis

This volume reflects on the old philosophical question of how to live the good life, not only with others who are physically with us, but also with those, whose presence is ghostly and liminal.

Spis treści

Introduction;  Part I: Gaps, glitches and ghosts;  1. Wandering in obscurity: modern experiences of time;  2. The ghost of Patrocles: humanity and respect for the dead;  3. The ghosts of Cain and Abel: am I my brother’s keeper?;  Part II: Looking back after 1945;  4. Walls and windows of silence;  5. Why silence was not possible: Arendt on the Holocaust and totalitarianism;  6. The lost and haunted world of Austerlitz;  Part III: Looking back after 1989;  7. Being and not being there: Holocaust memorials, selfies and social media;  8. Lenin’s haunted house: ghosts and political theology;  9. Nostalgia for phantom homelands: nowhere versus somewhere;  Epilogue

O autorze

Siobhan Kattago is Senior Research Fellow in Practical Philosophy at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research interests include collective memory, political thought and the philosophy of history. She is the editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies and the author of Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe as well as Ambiguous Memory: The Nazi Past and German National Identity.