Present Pasts - (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Andreas Huyssen (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas--Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"Fascinating reading, this is a profound, original, and timely book about the world's current obsession with the past, as well as the form which this obsession has taken: memory. Huyssen considers what our obsession with memory means, and examines a number of material forms that it has taken, as well as the social, cultural, and aesthetic functions they have served." --Kaja Silverman, University of California, Berkeley<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Fascinating reading, this is a profound, original, and timely book about the world's current obsession with the past, as well as the form which this obsession has taken: memory. Huyssen considers what our obsession with memory means, and examines a number of material forms that it has taken, as well as the social, cultural, and aesthetic functions they have served."<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Andreas Huyssen is Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His most recent book is <i>Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia.</i>
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