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  | | Shadows of Trauma Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity by Aleida Assmann, Sarah Clift Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2015 by Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-6728-6, ISBN: 0-8232-6728-8 "We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of the Holocaust is less and less anchored in the lived experience of survivors and witnesses. Shadows of Trauma analyzes the transformation of the past from an individual experience to a collective construction, with special attention to ..." |
 | | Cultural Memory and Western Civilization Functions, Media, Archives by Aleida Assmann Paperback, 424 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-16587-7, ISBN: 0-521-16587-3 "Cultures invest great efforts into creating a long-term memory on the basis of oral transmission, media technology, and institutional frameworks. This book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, focusing on the "arts" of its construction, particularly various media such as writing, images, bodily practices, places, and monuments. Examining the period from the European Renaissance to the present, Aleida Assmann revea ..." |
 | | The Political Theology of Paul(1st Edition) (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jacob Taubes, Dana Hollander, Aleida Assmann Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2003 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3345-8, ISBN: 0-8047-3345-7 "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.â 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 ..." |
 | | Empathy and its Limits(1st Edition) by Aleida Assmann, Ines Detmers Hardcover, 219 Pages, Published 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-137-55236-5, ISBN: 1-137-55236-0 "Empathy has been rediscovered and reshaped since the year 2000 as a concept with great interdisciplinary potential in neuroscience, socio-biology, psychology and the humanities. It is generally acknowledged as a vital emotional and social resource in a world faced with the challenges of globalization and the limitations of an endangered ecosystem. Empathy might be a unique human endowment, but we still know very little about the circums ..." |
 | | Memory and Political Change (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies) by Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-30199-3, ISBN: 0-230-30199-1 "Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions." |
 | | Is Time out of Joint? On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime by Aleida Assmann 264 Pages, Published 2020 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-4245-3, ISBN: 1-5017-4245-0 "“Georg Büchners Gegenwärtigkeit.” In Georg Büchner und die Moderne: Texte, Analysen, Kommentar, Bd. 2: 1945–1980, 375–79. ... In Selected Writings of R. W. Emerson, edited by W. H. Gilman, 312–24. New York: New American Library, ..." |
 | | Empathy and its Limits by Aleida Assmann, Ines Detmers 219 Pages, Published 2016 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-1-137-55237-2, ISBN: 1-137-55237-9 "Fritz. Breithaupt. 8.1 Empathy as a moral practice Jesse Prinz, in a recent article called 'Against Empathy', discusses many cases of the 'dark side of empathy' that show how empathy may lead to an unfair judgment and may favour some at the expense of others.1 The problem with empathy, Prinz holds, is that empathy interferes with morality due to its 'intrinsic partiality' and 'ineluctable locality'.2 While I agree with Prinz in thi ..." |
 | | Shadows of Trauma(1st Edition) Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity by Aleida Assmann, Sarah Clift Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2015 by Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-6727-9, ISBN: 0-8232-6727-X "We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of the Holocaust is less and less anchored in the lived experience of survivors and witnesses.Shadows of Trauma analyzes the transformation of the past from an individual experience to a collective construction, with special attention to t ..." |
 | | Cultural Memory and Western Civilization(Reprint) Functions, Media, Archives by Aleida Assmann Hardcover, 422 Pages, Published 2011 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-76437-7, ISBN: 0-521-76437-8 "Cultures invest great efforts into creating a long-term memory on the basis of oral transmission, media technology, and institutional frameworks. This book provides an introduction to the concept of cultural memory, focusing on the "arts" of its construction, particularly various media such as writing, images, bodily practices, places, and monuments. Examining the period from the European Renaissance to the present, Aleida Assmann revea ..." |
 | | Memory and Political Change (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies) by Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt, L. Shortt Paperback, 223 Pages, Published 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-30200-6, ISBN: 0-230-30200-9 "While political systems may change comparatively quickly, the social and cultural processes of adaptation and transformation take considerably longer. This volume explores memory as both a medium of and an impediment to change, offering an inroad into the problems, mechanisms and patterns involved in the complex processes that accompany the transition from authoritarian to democratic structures. Written by authors from different cultura ..." |
 | | Identities(1st Edition) Time, Difference and Boundaries (Making Sense of History) by Heidrun Friese, Editor-Aleida Assmann Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57181-507-1, ISBN: 1-57181-507-4 " "Identity" has become a core concept of the social and cultural sciences. Bringing together perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literary criticism, this book offers a comprehensive and critical overview on how this concept is currently used and how it relates to memory and constructions of historical meaning." |
 | | Memory in a Global Age Discourses, Practices and Trajectories (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies) by Aleida Assmann, Sebastian Conrad Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-27291-0, ISBN: 0-230-27291-6 "Memory in a Global Age A significant contribution to memory studies and part of an emergent strand of work on global memory. This book offers important insights on topics relating to memory, globalization, international politics, international relations, Holocaust studies and media and communication studies." |
 | | Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Memory in a Global Age : Discourses, Practices and Trajectories by Aleida Assmann, S. Conrad 252 Pages, Published 2010 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-230-28336-7, ISBN: 0-230-28336-5 "Shortly afterwards, another millennial event cast a dark shadow over their cosmopolitan vision of a unified global future: 11 September 2001. Not long after, Jeffrey ... trauma' on the other. He even discards the ontic level of the historical and psychological trauma as altogether irrelevant, privileging exclusively the cultural construction process of the trauma that gives it the shape of a social and political reality.5 ... natio ..." |
 | | The Political Theology of Paul(1st Edition) (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jacob Taubes, Dana Hollander, Aleida Assmann, Professor Dana Hollander Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2003 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3344-1, ISBN: 0-8047-3344-9 "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 ar ..." |
 | | Identities(1st Edition) Time, Difference and Boundaries (Making Sense of History) by Aleida Assmann, Heidrun Friese Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2002 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57181-474-6, ISBN: 1-57181-474-4 "Bridging the gap between historical theory and the study of historical memory, this series crosses the boundaries between both academic disciplines and cultural, social, political and historical contexts. In an age of rapid globalization, which tends to manifest itself on an economic and political level, locating the cultural practices involved in generating its underlying historical sense is an increasingly urgent task. "Identity" has ..." |
 | | Identities by Aleida Assmann, Heidrun Friese Hardcover, Published 2000 by Berghahn Books ISBN-13: 978-1-57181-779-2, ISBN: 1-57181-779-4 |
 | | Is Time Out of Joint? On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime by Assmann, Aleida, Clift, Sarah 264 Pages, Published 2020 by Cornell University Press And Cornell University Library ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-4243-9, ISBN: 1-5017-4243-4 |
 | | From Cult to Culture(1st Edition) Fragments Toward a Critique of Historical Reason (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jacob Taubes, Amir Engel, Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Jan Assmann, Aleida Assmann Paperback, 456 Pages, Published 2009 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3984-9, ISBN: 0-8047-3984-6 "After launching his career with the 1947 publication of his dissertation, "Occidental Eschatology," Jacob Taubes spent the early years of his career as a fellow and then professor at various American institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia. During his American years, he also gathered together a number of prominent thinkers at his weekly seminars on Jewish intellectual history. In the mid-60s, Taubes joined the faculty o ..." |
 | | From Cult to Culture(1st Edition) Fragments toward a Critique of Historical Reason (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jacob Taubes, Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Amir Engel, Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Egyptologist Jan Assmann, Wolf-Daniel Hartwich Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 2009 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-3983-2, ISBN: 0-8047-3983-8 "After launching his career with the 1947 publication of his dissertation, "Occidental Eschatology," Jacob Taubes spent the early years of his career as a fellow and then professor at various American institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia. During his American years, he also gathered together a number of prominent thinkers at his weekly seminars on Jewish intellectual history. In the mid-60s, Taubes joined the faculty o ..." |
 | | Paris Calligramme Eine Erinnerungslandschaft von Ulrike Ottinger by Aleida Assmann, Laurence A. Rickels, Marguerite Vappereau, Bernd M. Scherer, Ulrike Ottinger, Katharina Sykora Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2019 by Hatje Cantz ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-4637-3, ISBN: 3-7757-4637-4 "A collaged portrait of postwar Paris from an acclaimed bricoleur of archives In Paris Calligrammes filmmaker and photographer Ulrike Ottinger (born 1942) links archival material with her own art and films to create a image of the era in which she came of age. From the Librairie Calligrammes, where exiled German intellectuals gathered, to the Cinémathèque française, Ottinger charts the city's havens." |
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