In the last few decades, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the categories of past, present and future in Western societies. It has enabled the historians gaze to shift more freely than ever before so that the past no longer appears as something final and irreversible but persists in many ways in the present. The recognition of this new situation has given rise to a novel approach in historical research, called mnemohistory by Jan Assmann. Mnemohistory is interested not so much in the factuality as in the actuality of the past not in the past for its own sake, but in its later impact and reception. This volume looks at the perspectives of mnemohistory, argues for a redefinition of the notion of event, and proposes to conceptualize the link between event and mnemohistory by re-introducing the concept of afterlife (Nachleben), first employed by Aby Warburg in the 1910s.
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| Introduction: Afterlife of Events: Perspectives on Mnemohistory |
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Part I Theoretical Reflections |
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1 Historical Event between the Sphinx and the Phoenix |
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2 Events, Proper Names and the Rise of Memory |
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3 Accelerating Change and Trigger Events |
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4 Theories of Cultural Memory and the Concept of `Afterlife' |
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5 Literature and the Afterlife of Events: The Lost and Haunted World of Austerlitz |
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Part II Empirical Analyses |
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7 Convulsion Recalled: Aftermath and Cultural Memory (Post-1798 Ireland) |
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8 Celebrating Final Victory in Estonia's `Great Battle for Freedom': The Short Afterlife of 23 June 1919 as National Holiday, 1934--1939 |
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9 Novemberland: 9 November, the German Master Example of Hauntology |
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10 German Pasts in a Russian City - Kaliningrad between 1946 and 2006 |
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11 Can a Criminal Event in the Past Disappear in a Garbage Bin in the Present? Dutch Colonial Memory and Human Rights: The Case of Rawagede |
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12 Do Apologies End Events? Bloody Sunday, 1972--2010 |
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| Afterthoughts on Afterlives |
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Aleida Assmann, University of Konstanz, Germany
Jan Assmann, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Stefan Berger, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany
Peter Burke, University of Cambridge, UK
Karsten Brüggemann, Tallinn University, Estonia
Franēois Dosse, Institut Universitaire de Formation des Maītres, France
Siobhan Kattago, Tallinn University, Estonia
Nikolay Koposov, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Claus Leggewie, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany
Chris Lorenz, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Olivier Remaud, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France
Ann Rigney, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Marek Tamm, Tallinn University, Estonia
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