The Politics of Regret : On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility

ISBN-13: 9780415956833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 238 str.

Jeffrey Olick

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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