Twilight Memories

by Andreas Huyssen

In this new collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past. The great paradox of our fin-de-siecle culture is that novelty is even more associated with memory than with future expectation. Drawing heavily on the dilemmas of contemporary Germany, Huyssen's discussion of cultural memory illustrates the nature of contemporary nationalism, the work of such artists and thinkers as Anselm Kiefer, Alexander Kluge, and Jean Baudrillard, and many others. The book includes illustrations from contemporary Germany.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Theory

302 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 1994

About the author

Andreas Huyssen is the Villard Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he taught beginning in 1986. He is the founding director of the university's Center for Comparative Literature and Society and one of the founding editors of the New German Critique.

Reviews

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Sobre causas de memory boom en la actualidad

[daaltena · Rating 3 out of 5]

De essays zijn sterk, eerste paar wel beter dan de latere. Nog actueel. Geleend bij UB Science Park.