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In the Politics of Memory Jane Kramer surveys the moral and political landscape of today's Germany, where the reunification of East and West has brought into conflict two vastly different memories of what it means to "be" German. These essays cut straight to the Zeitgeist of Europe's most politically and economically influential country. Self-styled anarchists destroy a filmmaker's Berlin restaurant to protest its "bourgeois" nature, but their ruthless call for freedom is simply German fascism repackaged. A young East German who escapes to the West doesn't know what to do with himself once he gets there - an example of the deep passivity that is perhaps the Communists' most troubling legacy to the "new" Germany. And the bizarre story of a German holocaust memorial reveals a revisionist desire to portray the country as a victim of World War II by "turning the twelve dark years of Hitler into twelve years of resistance to Hitler and occupation by Hitler; an abandonment, for the sake of settling the past into 'history,' of the very plain historical truth that Germany had chosen Hitler

A powerful and haunting visual record, Stephen Shore's portraits highlight the resilience and hope of Ukraine's Holocaust survivors. Shore's latest project is his most emotionally-charged to date and the first photobook on this subject. An important cultural document, Survivors in Ukraine sits between the traditions of the diaristic colour photobook that Shore himself pioneered with 'Uncommon places'(1982) and 'American surfaces' (2005), and that of the 'concerned' photographer using the camera as witness to conflict and other historic events

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Modern Moral Order -- 2 What Is a ''Social Imaginary''? -- 3 The Specter of Idealism -- 4 The Great Disembedding -- 5 The Economy as Objectified Reality -- 6 The Public Sphere -- 7 Public and Private -- 8 The Sovereign People -- 9 An All-Pervasive Order -- 10 The Direct-Access Society -- 11 Agency and Objectification -- 12 Modes of Narration -- 13 The Meaning of Secularity -- 14 Provincializing Europe -- Notes