Commemoration and Remembrance as a design Element of Politics? :

by Aleida Assmann

The question that I want to address in this essay what can be the contribution of official commemoration and social remembrance to the realm of politics and political relations? In which way can the memory of the past influence and perhaps even shape political relations and orientations for the future?

15 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 13, 2020

About the author

Aleida Assmann is a Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory in the Department of Literature, Art and Media at the University of Konstanz in Germany. She has also been a guest lecturer at universities including Rice, Princeton, Yale, and the University of Chicago. She is the author of several German-language books and has received international recognition for her scholarship, including the Max-Planck-Research Prize for History and Memory in 2009 and an Honorary Doctorate from the Theological Faculty at the University of Oslo in 2008.