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Twilight Memories Tw iI i g h t Me m 0 r i e s Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia Andreas Hllyssen I~ ~~o~~!;~~~up New York London Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Published in 1995 by Routledge Taylor and Francis Group 270 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10016 Routledge Taylor and Francis Group 2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon Oxon OX14 4RN Transferred to Digital Printing 2010 Copyright © 1995 by Routledge All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publications Data Huyssen, Andreas. Twilight Memories: marking time in a culture of amnesia I Andreas Huyssen p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN HB 0 415 9093411 - ISBN PB 0 415 90935 X 1. Germany-Intellectual Life. 2. German-Civilization. 3. Germany-History-1993-1945-Historiography. 4. Memory in literature. 5. German literature-History and criticism. I. Title. DD260J.H89 1994 943.08-dc20 94-27439 CIP Publisher's Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original may be apparent. For Nina Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Time and Cultural Memory at Our Fin de Siecle I Time and Memory 1. Escape from Amnesia: The Museum as Mass Medium 13 2. After the Wall: The Failure of German Intellectuals 37 3. Nation, Race, and Immigration: German Identities after Unification 67 4. Memories of Utopia 85 1/ Media and Culture 5. Paris/Childhood: The Fragmented Body in Rilke's 105 Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 6. Fortifying the Heart-Totally: Ernst Junger's Armored Texts 127 7. Alexander Kluge: An Analytic Storyteller in the Course of Time 145 8. Postenlightened Cynicism: Diogenes as Postmodern Intellectual 157 9. In the Shadow of McLuhan: Baudrillard's Theory of Simulation 175 10. Back to the Future: Fluxus in Context 1 91 11. Anselm Kiefer: The Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth 209 12. Monuments and Holocaust Memory in a Media Age 249 Notes 261 Index 279 Acknowledgments Most of the essays in this book were previously published and appear here essentially unaltered. All of these essays were originally presented as papers, and their final form has benefited immeasurably from comments, criticisms, and, especially in the case of the political essays on recent German events, heated debate. I could not even begin here to acknowledge all those friends and colleagues in the United States and in Germany who have had a hidden hand in the writing and rewriting of this book. Nor could I give appropriate thanks to all those who provided me with the institutional spaces to test and to refine my ideas. A summary expression of gratitude will have to suffice, but it is no less genuine for that. Chapters 2 and 6 were previously published in New German Critique 52 (Winter 1991) and 59 (Summer 1993); chapters 7 and the two parts of chapter 11 in October 46 (Fall 1988), 48 (Spring 1989), and 62 (Fall 1992); chapter 3 in Discourse 16.3 (Spring 1994); chapter 9 in assemblage 10 (December 1989); chapter 5 in Modernity and the Text, edited by David Bathrick and myself (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989); chapter 8 as a Foreword to Peter Sloterdijk, Critique of Cynical Reason (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987); chapter 10 in In the Spirit of Fluxus, published by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, in conjunction with the exhibition In the Spirit ofF lux us (1993); and chapter 12 in James E. Young, ed., The
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