Description |
viii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
1. Introduction : from collective memory to the politics of regret -- 2. Collective memory : the two cultures -- 3. Collective memory and cultural constraint : Holocaust myth and rationality in German politics -- 4. Genre memories and memory genres : a dialogical analysis of May 8, 1945, commemorations in the Federal Republic of Germany -- 5. Figurations of memory : a process-relational methodology, illustrated on the German case -- 6. The politics of regret : analytical frames -- 7. The value of regret? : lessons from and for Germany -- 8. From theodicy to Ressentiment : trauma and the ages of compensation -- 9. Collective memory and chronic differentiation : historicity and the public sphere |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Collective memory.
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Regret.
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Political atrocities.
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LC no. |
2006038498 |
ISBN |
9780415956826 hardback |
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041595682X hardback |
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9780415956833 paperback |
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