Jeffrey K Olick: 2 books
The Politics of Regret
On Collective Memory and Historical Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
In the past decade, Jeffrey Olick has established himself as one of the world’s pre-eminent sociologists of memory (and, related to this, both cultural sociology and social theory). His recent book on memory in postwar Germany, In the House of the Hangman (University of Chicago Press, 2005) has...
The Sins of the Fathers
Germany, Memory, Method
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
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...