Re‐membering the European citizen

The social construction of collective memory in Weimar

Bibliographic Data

ID7889374
AuthorsK Keohane (0000-0003-2792-5479, National University of Ireland, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume4
Issue1
Pages39-59
Publication date1999-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Political Ideologies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1356-9317 • E-ISSN: 1469-9613
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569319908420788
OpenAlexW1995121121
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited20

Collective re‐membering is examined in the context of the production of Weimar as European city of Culture. Weimar, cradle of German culture, and location of the prototype concentration camp, is formulated as a site of antagonism. The relationship between a walking/talking tour of the city and remembering is discussed with reference to Freud and Wittgenstein. Re‐membering is considered as suturing, and as ideological interpellation, hegemonic practices which are deployed in the context of walking in the city. The subject interpellated in Weimar, European city of Culture, is the blasé cosmopolitan (Simmel) and the flâneur (Benjamin) a subject capable of living with irreconcilable antagonism; an ideal type citizen that would be the keystone of European unity. Limitations of this hegemonic project are considered in light of the conditions of post‐modernity

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Collective memory · Context (archaeology · German · German culture · Hegemony · Ideal (ethics · Ideology · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Weimar Republic · Critical Theory and Philosophy · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

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