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Forgetting history is an obsession with history

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German historian and cultural critic Aleida Assmann is a leading researcher on the politics of memory in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. Her book "Oblivion of History - Obsession with History" is a kind of trilogy devoted to the memorial culture of late modernity. In "Forms of Oblivion," Assmann describes the relationship between memory and amnesia in social, political, and cultural contexts. In the second part of the trilogy ("1998 - Between History and Memory"), the author traces how Germany moves from oblivion of national history to an obsession with history centered around National Socialism. Finally, in History in Memory, Assmann shows how the unified national narrative of the nineteenth century is being replaced by pluralistic and contradictory approaches to the past within a "new historicism for the twenty-first century." Individual biographies, family histories, novels, museum displays as well as memorial architecture and historical reconstructions of events take on a special role in exacerbating conflicts of (inter)generational memory. Aleida Assmann's work offers new insights into the irreversible changes that Western European culture has undergone since World War II.
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