Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
History and Memory; Studies in Representation of the Past
Angaben zur Quelle:
2,2 (1990) 76-96
Schlagwort(e):
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Historiography
Kurzfassung:
Discusses the postwar and, more recently, postmodern complexities involved in determining German national and cultural identity. Takes as examples the events of the "historians' debate" and the film "Heimat", in large part generated by a political unconscious attempting to undo the complexities by way of various strategies of respecularization - a repetition compulsion that reenacts history in the medium of representations (e.g. historiography). Where the Jews were once blamed for the traumas of modernity, it appears that now the Holocaust is to blame for the traumas of postmodernity. In this respect, describes the views of neoconservative historians Nolte, Hillgruber, and Stürmer, Habermas's idea of the postconventional identity (involving awareness of and toleration for instabilities and complexities), and the treatment of Jews in Reitz's film.
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