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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...

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Published in:Scandinavian Studies Vol. 96; no. 2; pp. 5 - 28
Main Author: Olsson, Ulf
Format: Article
Published: University of Wisconsin Press 2024
Subjects:
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Memory
Right-wing extremism
Literary form
Self-defense
Authoritarianism
Conceptual history
Recollection (Psychology)
Collective memory
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