Twilight Memories : Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (Paperback)

Introduction: Time and Cultural Memory at Our Fin de Siecle I Time and Memory 1. Escape from Amnesia: The Museum as Mass Medium 2. After the Wall: The Failure of German Intellectuals 3. Nation, Race, and Immigration: German Identities after Unification 4. Memories of Utopia 1/ Media and Culture 5. Paris/Childhood: The Fragmented Body in Rilke's Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge 6. Fortifying the Heart-Totally: Ernst Junger's Armored Texts 7. Alexander Kluge: An Analytic Storyteller in the Course of Time 8. Post-enlightened Cynicism: Diogenes as Postmodern Intellectual 9. In the Shadow of McLuhan: Baudrillard's Theory of Simulation 10. Back to the Future: Fluxus in Context 1 11. Anselm Kiefer: The Terror of History, the Temptation of Myth 12. Monuments and Holocaust Memory in a Media Age