Lessons from the Past?: Memory, Narrativity and Subjectivity

by Bernhard Forchtner

This book reconstructs how claims to know 'the lessons' from past wrongdoings are made useful in the present. These claims are powerful tools in contemporary debates over who we are, who we want to be and what we should do. Drawing on a wide range of spoken and written texts from Austria, Denmark, Germany and the United States, this book proposes an abstract framework through which such claims can be understood. It does so by conceptualising four...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137483210
• ISBN13: 9781137483218
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 6.3"