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Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time book cover

1st Edition

Encountering the Past within the Present Modern Experiences of Time

By Siobhan Kattago Copyright 2020
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge
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Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time examines different encounters with the past from within the present – whether as commemoration, nostalgia, silence, ghostly haunting or combinations thereof. Taking its cue from Hannah Arendt’s definition of the present as a time span lying between past and future, the author reflects on the old philosophical question of how... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Gaps, Glitches and Ghosts

1. Wandering in Obscurity: Modern Experiences of Time

2. The Ghost of Patrocles: Humanity and Respect for the Dead

3. The Ghosts of Cain and Abel: Am I My Brother’s Keeper?

Part 2: Looking Back After 1945

4. Walls and Windows of Silence

5. Why Silence Was Not Possible: Arendt on the Holocaust and Totalitarianism

6. The Lost and Haunted World of Austerlitz

Part 3: Looking Back After 1989

7. Being and Not Being There: Holocaust Memorials, Selfies and Social Media

8. Lenin’s Haunted House: Ghosts and Political Theology

9. Nostalgia for Phantom Homelands: Nowhere Versus Somewhere

Epilogue

Biography

Siobhan Kattago is Senior Research Fellow in Practical Philosophy at the University of Tartu, Estonia. Her research interests include collective memory, political thought and the philosophy of history. She is the editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies and the author of Memory and Representation in Contemporary Europe as well as Ambiguous Memory: The Nazi Past and German National Identity.

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