New discontent with a memorial culture. 2nd edition. Assman A.

The book of the German historian and theorist of the cultural memory of Aleida Assman is poleming with an increasingly increasing tendency in recent years, which questioned the value of that memorial culture, which since the 1970-1980s became the dominant way of working with the past. The reason for this increasing “discontent” was the transformation of the traumatic past into a subject of political and economic bargaining.

“The Holocaust Industry”, fierce competition for the status of the victim, painful attachment to guilt are the most noticeable manifestations of how modern forms of cultural memory work. Partially recognizing the validity of the position of his opponents, Alade Assman is trying to build such a memorial perspective in which responsibility for committed crimes, ethical readiness to share guilt and legal framework that allow you to hear the votes of the victims, would turn work with the past into one of the important factors of the conscious movement towards the future.