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Transnational Memory
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Transnational Memory

by Chiara De Cesari, Ann Rigney
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 8m
English
De Gruyter
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Michael Rothberg

Multidirectional Memory in Migratory Settings: The Case of Post-Holocaust Germany

Immigrating into the past

On November 6, 1959, ten years after returning to West Germany in the wake of the Nazi period and Holocaust, Theodor W. Adorno addressed teachers from the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation with a lecture in Wiesbaden whose central question continues to echo more than a half-century later: “Was bedeutet: Aufarbeitung der Vergangenheit?” – “What does working through the past mean?” In his lecture, the philosopher Adorno distinguished between different modalities for confronting the difficult history of National Socialism and argued powerfully against the desire he saw in the German society of the 1950s to “close ...

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ISBN: 9783110386738