Aleida Assmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 304376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleida Assmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleida |
| FAMILY NAME | Assmann |
| SIGNATURE | ASSMANN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Konstanz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 82 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Vorwort
Chaos von oben. Gedanken zu Carl Schmitts Anthropologie
Which Lessons are to be Learned from the Holocaust? A Personal Account of the History of the Ihra 2000–2025 from the Viewpoint of a Memory Scholar
Epilog oder: Was wir von den Finnen lernen können
Gemeinsinn: Zur Sprach- und Begriffsgeschichte
Helden und Heldinnen des Gemeinsinns
Grundsätze demokratischer politischer Kultur
Vorwort
Anhang
Vita
Einleitung
Menschenbilder zwischen Partikularismus und Universalismus
Solidarität
Zum Buch
Brüderlichkeit
Beziehungsgrammatiken: Feindbilder und Freundbilder
Too many aporias? A commentary on Heidrun Friese's essay on institutionalized anti-antisemitism
Gemeinsinn: Der sechste, soziale Sinn
Addiction to Books: Jewish Monotheism, Media Revolutions, and Cultural Memory
Can the Past Be Repaired? Divided Narratives and National Solidarity
Nations are torn apart today not only through material and social inequality or identity politics but also through contrasting and conflicting narratives of the past that coexist independently in the same territory. In order to overcome the division and fragmentation in a society, to mobilize civic strength for common projects, and thus create solidarity among diverse social groups, it is important to address the divided past and to bring conflic…
Volume 68.4 (2023)
Political solidarity cannot be practiced by an individual in isolation; it characterizes groups, both as a descriptive and as a normative concept.But what are the boundaries of the solidaristic group?This paper takes on the assumption that "solidarity has its limits."I argue that in order to understand what solidarity is, we have to understand its reach.The bounds of solidarity are inclusive, expansive, and fluid.Solidarity is inclusive because i…
War Jacob Taubes ein Scharlatan
Seine großen, dunklen Augen ruhten niemals auf einem Ding. Immer war ein Flackern in ihnen, dem oft eine Bewegung um einen verletzlichen Mund entsprach.» Dieter Henrich war diesem «Flackern» – das er in seinem Nachruf auf Jacob Taubes (1923–1987) mit einer zarten physiognomischen Vignette beschwört – in den frühen sechziger Jahren an der FU in Berlin begegnet. Und bald darauf auf der ersten Reise ins gelobte Land Amerika, wo Taubes, der schon ein…
Ähnlichkeit als Performanz. Ein neuer Zugang zu Identitätskonstruktionen und Empathie-Regimen
Namensregister
Is Time Out of Joint: On the Rise and Fall of the Modern Time Regime
Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out of joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future—and their relationship to the present—been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of e…
Transnational Memories
The ‘transnational turn’, which is challenging bounded views on national belonging, also opens up promising perspectives for memory studies. It fosters a rethinking and reconfiguring of national memories in the context of transnational connectedness. My sketch of seven types of transnational memories points to different empirical contexts in which states, politicians, jurists, activists, artists and scholars go beyond national borders and interes…
Transformations between History and Memory
Aleida Assmann Transformations between History and Memory COLLECTIVE M EM O RY-A SPURIOUS NOTION? THERE IS NO NEED TO CONVINCE ANYBODY THAT THERE IS SUCH A TH ING as individual memory; m em ory attaches to persons in the singular. But does it attach to them in the plural? Although the term “collec tive m em oiy” has gained currency and a whole new discourse has been built around it that fills extended libraiy shelves, there are still invet erat…
History, Memory, and the Genre of Testimony
The essay focuses on the relationship between memory and history, which has changed in many ways under the impact of the Holocaust. Memory that had been discarded by historians as an unreliable and distorting source came to be acknowledged as an important factor in the reconstruction of past events, thus advancing from a rival to a partner of historiography. The question to be asked is no longer merely what has happened? but also how was the even…
One land and three narratives: Palestinian sites of memory in Israel
The first part of the article invites a fresh look at the often defined concepts of 'space' and 'place', connecting them to different subject positions, mental frames and projects. The second part addresses memory issues that underlie the political conflict between the state of Israel and Palestinians in the Near East. It will analyse two seemingly incompatible memories related to the same events and topography. The focus of the essay is not only…
On the (In)Compatibility of Guilt and Suffering in German Memory 1
This article analyses the current shift in German memory concerning the issue of German suffering at the end of the Second World War. Contrary to widely held belief, these themes are not novel: German suffering was a topic of discourse immediately after the war in the private and political sphere. What is new in the current context, however, is the intensity of the unexpected return of these issues and their wide social resonance among different …
A Spectre is Haunting Germany: The Mbembe Debate and the New Antisemitism
“A spectre is haunting Europe: it is the accusation of antisemitism. It places us Europeans, especially Germans, under general suspicion.” 1 With these words Jan Assmann and I opened a letter in Ju
Bilder, Gefühle, Erwartungen: Über die emotionale Dimension von Gedenkstätten und den Umgang von Jugendlichen mit dem Holocaust
What role do emotions play in the way in which young people confront the history of the Holocaust? This article examines memorial sites and video interviews of survivors as interfaces of the representation and appropriation of the past. These contact zones satisfy the need for emotional participation and for information.Videos uploaded by youngsters on the internet following their visit to memorial sites, and short films extracted by pupils from …
Schweigen
Wovon man nicht reden kann, darüber muss man schweigen« – so Wittgensteins berühmtes Diktum. Gewöhnlich fasst man das »Worüber« des Schweigens im mystischen Sinne auf: als das, was jenseits des menschlichem Erkennen Zugänglichen und mit sprachlichen Mitteln Artikulierbaren liegt. Man kann aber auch an das Jenseits des Kommunizierbaren denken, was durchaus erkennbar ist, aber sich jeder Mitteilung versperrt: weil es niemand gern hören, weil es der…
Civilizing Societies: Recognition and Respect in a Global World
The essay discusses the terms "recognition" and "respect" as new transcultural candidates for our post-ideological age. Although intimately connected with each other, the two terms have different genealogies, historical baggage, and ranges of application. The essay begins with eighteenth-century England, introducing the important bourgeois concepts of politeness and civility as new enlightened norms for social and transcultural behaviour. In the …
Two Forms of Resentment: Jean Amery, Martin Walser and German Memorial Culture
Texts, Traces, Trash: The Changing Media of Cultural Memory
Research Article| October 01 1996 Texts, Traces, Trash: The Changing Media of Cultural Memory Aleida Assmann Aleida Assmann Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1996) 56: 123–134. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928711 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search S…
Which Lessons are to be Learned from the Holocaust? A Personal Account of the History of the Ihra 2000–2025 from the Viewpoint of a Memory Scholar
Gemeinsinn: Der sechste, soziale Sinn
Erasmus Medal Lecture 2019, AE GM Barcelona. Re-imagining the Nation: Memory, Identity and the Emotions
The new nationalism emerging across much of Europe is ready to forgo and forget lessons of history that had successfully domesticated and democratized the nations of the EU over the last 70 years. If the nation, however, is an important resource for integration, and integration is seen as a common project for both its citizens and its migrants, how can it be reimaged and supported to live up to this difficult and important task? This article will…
Wem gehört die Geschichte? Fakten und Fiktionen in der neueren deutschen Erinnerungsliteratur
This essay discusses the distinct features of memory fiction, a new genre that has emerged during the last two decades. It works through memories of the Nazi past and traumatic episodes of the Second World War within new literary frameworks. In this orientation towards the past the memory novel maintains distance from the research of historical reconstruction, as well as from the popular presentation of the past in the visual mass media. With res…
Werden was wir waren. Anmerkungen zur Geschichte der Kindheitsidee
Jaspers’ Achsenzeit, oder Schwierigkeiten mit der Zentralperspektive in der Geschichte
Die Philosophen haben sich nicht von jeher für Geschichte interessiert. Der bemerkenswerte Satz des Aristoteles, daß die Dichtung philosophischer sei als die Historie, macht deutlich, daß in der Kunde vom Menschen der Historiker und der Philosoph traditionellerweise entgegengesetzte Positionen vertreten. Das ändert sich im 18. Jh., der Epoche, die von Koselleck einschlägig als “Sattelzeit” benannt worden ist. In dieser Zeit entdecken die Philosop…
Das Gestern im Heute. Medien und soziales Gedächtnis
Das Gedächtnis entsteht nicht nur in, sondern vor allem zwischen den Menschen. Es ist nicht nur ein neuronales und psychisches, sondern auch und vor allem ein soziales Phänomen. Es entfaltet sich in Kommunikation und Gedächtnismedien, die solcher Kommunikation ihre Wiedererkennbarkeit und Kontinuität sichern. Was und wie erinnert wird, darüber entscheiden neben den technischen Möglichkeiten der Aufzeichnung und Speicherung auch die Relevanzrahmen…
Im Dickicht der Zeichen Hodegetik — Hermeneutik — Dekonstruktion
Texts, Traces, Trash: The Changing Media of Cultural Memory
Research Article| October 01 1996 Texts, Traces, Trash: The Changing Media of Cultural Memory Aleida Assmann Aleida Assmann Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1996) 56: 123–134. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928711 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search S…
Engendering Dreams The Dreams of Adam and Eve in Milton’s Paradise Lost
In an aphorism titled “the error of dreams” (“Missverstandnis des Traumes”), Nietzsche wrote: “In dreaming, people of a primordial and primitive civilization believed they encountered another reality; this is the origin of all metaphysics. Without the evidence of dreams, human beings would not have been led to divide the world into two different realms.” Nietzsche, who passionately opposed a two worlds theory, identifies dreaming as the source of…
Geschichtsvergessenheit, Geschichtsversessenheit: Vom Umgang mit deutschen Vergangenheiten nach 1945
Ritual: Air From Other Planets Blowing: The Logic of Authenticity and the Prophet of the Aura
Two Forms of Resentment: Jean Amery, Martin Walser and German Memorial Culture
La thèse de la culpabilité collective: Un traumatisme allemand
Der lange Schatten der Vergangenheit: Erinnerungskultur und Geschichtspolitik
Wir haben das 20. Jahrhundert verlassen, aber es hat uns nicht verlassen. Während es immer weniger Zeitzeugen und Überlebende des Zweiten Weltkriegs und des Holocaust gibt, sind wir mehr als sechzig Jahre nach den traumatischen Ereignissen weiterhin intensiv damit beschäftigt, dieser Vergangenheit eine Erinnerungsgestalt zu geben. Aleida Assmann untersucht in diesem klar und anschaulich geschriebenen Buch, das sich beherzt über Fächergrenzen hinw…
On the (In)Compatibility of Guilt and Suffering in German Memory 1
This article analyses the current shift in German memory concerning the issue of German suffering at the end of the Second World War. Contrary to widely held belief, these themes are not novel: German suffering was a topic of discourse immediately after the war in the private and political sphere. What is new in the current context, however, is the intensity of the unexpected return of these issues and their wide social resonance among different …
De la correspondance épistolaire au courrier électronique
Que change l'usage quotidien de nos boîtes à lettre électronique à la circulation des idées, à la maturation des échanges intellectuels ? Alors que les correspondances privées ont participé au développement de la science et de la recherche, l'inondation des mails et l'instantanéité des échanges destinent-elles notre travail à ne plus laisser de traces
History, Memory, and the Genre of Testimony
The essay focuses on the relationship between memory and history, which has changed in many ways under the impact of the Holocaust. Memory that had been discarded by historians as an unreliable and distorting source came to be acknowledged as an important factor in the reconstruction of past events, thus advancing from a rival to a partner of historiography. The question to be asked is no longer merely what has happened? but also how was the even…
Arbeit am Gedächtnis: Für Aleida Assmann
Im Zuge des 'cultural turn' sind Erinnern und Vergessen zu Leitthemen der Kulturwissenschaften geworden. Das Gedächtnis-Paradigma, das sich in der Auseinandersetzung mit Maurice Halbwachs’ Studien zu den sozialen Rahmen der Erinnerung entwickelte, hat ein transdisziplinäres Forschungsinteresse hervorgebracht, das die verschiedenen Fächer aus ihrer jeweils spezifischen Perspektive verfolgen. An dieser Entwicklung hat Aleida Assmann entscheidenden …
Schlussbemerkungen
Sammeln, Sammlungen, Sammler
Canon and Archive
Transformations between History and Memory
Aleida Assmann Transformations between History and Memory COLLECTIVE M EM O RY-A SPURIOUS NOTION? THERE IS NO NEED TO CONVINCE ANYBODY THAT THERE IS SUCH A TH ING as individual memory; m em ory attaches to persons in the singular. But does it attach to them in the plural? Although the term “collec tive m em oiy” has gained currency and a whole new discourse has been built around it that fills extended libraiy shelves, there are still invet erat…
Memory, Individual and Collective
This article considers the relevance of individual and collective memory in political analysis. It proposes that there are four formats of memory and these are individual memory, social memory, political memory, and cultural memory. It argues for the existence of collective memory and explains that human beings do not only live in the first person singular, but also in various formats of the first person plural. It contends that each ‘we’ is cons…
Geschichte findet Stadt
Geister, Gespenster, Dämonen bei Shakespeare und Milton
Neda — the Career of a Global Icon
On 26 December 2009, the London Times chose Neda Agha-Soltan as ‘person of the year’. The article stated: ‘Neda Soltan [...], a young beautiful woman who had studied philosophy, was now an aspiring singer, [...] found herself abruptly catapulted from the crowds of Tehran to become the face of protest against Iran’s repressive rulers; a symbol of rebellion against the fraudulent election that had just returned Mahmoud Ahmedinejad to power’. Neda i…
Mangel, Makel und das Wortfeld der Vollkommenheit
The Holocaust — a Global Memory? Extensions and Limits of a New Memory Community
The Holocaust is the name for a complex of events, actions and experiences that had a global impact historically and an emphatically transnational character. Due to its radical anti-human ideology, geographic scope and bureaucratic ‘perfection’, today it stands out as the paradigmatic genocide in world consciousness. From its very beginning, the social exclusion, contraction and extermination of European Jews was associated with spatial movements…
Philosophy (34 works) · Political science (26 works) · Art (24 works) · Sociology (18 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (17 works) · Law (17 works) · History (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Humanities (14 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (14 works)