The sins of the fathers : Germany, memory, method /
National identity and political legitimacy always involve a delicate balance between remembering and forgetting. All nations have elements in their past that they would prefer to pass over the catalog of failures, injustices and horrors committed in the name of nations, if fully acknowledged, could...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Chicago studies in practices of meaning.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Placing memory in Germany
- The sociology of collective memory
- Prologues: the origins of West German memory
- The reliable nation. Bonn is not Weimar
- Expiation and explanation
- Germany in the West
- The return of the repressed
- The reliable nation
- The moral nation. Seeds of change
- The grand coalition and the wider world
- Social-liberal guilt
- The moral nation
- The normal nation. West Germany's normal problems
- The new conservatism
- The politics of history
- Beyond Bitburg
- The normal nation
- Conclusions. Epilogues: Berlin is not Bonn
- History, memory, and temporality.