The Art of Self-Defense: Diary, Memory, and the Subject.
In his "On the Concept of History," Walter Benjamin asks what memory can mean at "a moment of danger." Suggesting that we all are at such a moment of danger today, I discuss what role and function literary memory can play or fulfill in an age marked by right-wing extremism, climate change, authorita...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Studies Vol. 96; no. 2; pp. 5 - 28 |
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University of Wisconsin Press
2024
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