Encountering the past within the present : modern experiences of time /

• Main Author: Kattago, Siobhan, 1966- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London : Routledge, 2020.
• Series: Memory studies: global constellations
• Subjects: Μνήμη > Κοινωνιολογικές απόψεις.; Συλλογική μνήμη; Χρόνος > Κοινωνιολογικές απόψεις.; Ιστορία > Φιλοσοφία

"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...

Table of Contents:

• Wandering in obscurity: modern experiences of time
• The ghost of patrocles: humanity and respect for the dead
• The ghosts of Cain and Abel: am I my brother's keeper?
• Walls and windows of silence
• Why silence was not possible: Arendt on the Holocaust and totalitarianism
• The lost and haunted world of Austerlitz
• Being and not being there: Holocaust memorials, selfies and social media
• Lenin's haunted house: ghosts and political theology
• Nostalgia for phantom homelands: nowhere versus somewhere.