Aleida Assmann
German professor of English and Literary Studies
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Aleida Assmann is a German professor of English and Literary Studies, who studied Egyptology and whose work has focused on cultural anthropology and Cultural and Communicative Memory. Life Born Aleida Bornkamm in , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, she is the daughter of the New Testament scholar Günther Bornkamm and his wife, Elisabeth. She studied English and Egyptology at the universities of Heidelberg and Tübingen from 1966 to 1972. In 1977 she wrote her dissertation in Heidelberg about The Legitimacy of Fiction . She had to take her minor field examination in Egyptology in Tübingen because her husband Jan Assmann had become a professor of Egyptology in Heidelberg.
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- Canon and archive (2010) (236)
- Transformations between History and Memory (2014) (207)
- Memory, Individual and Collective (2006) (143)
- Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives (2011) (141)
- History, Memory, and the Genre of Testimony (2006) (114)
- Memory in a global age : discourses, practices and trajectories (2010) (104)
- Re-framing memory : between individual and collective forms of constructing the past (2010) (101)
- Memory in a Global Age (2010) (99)
- The Holocaust - a global memory? : Extensions and limits of a new memory community (2010) (69)
- Transnational Memories (2014) (55)
- Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity (2015) (54)
- Memory and political change (2012) (49)
- On the (In)Compatibility of Guilt and Suffering in German Memory (2006) (35)
- Memory and Political Change: Introduction (2012) (35)
- Texts, Traces, Trash: The Changing Media of Cultural Memory (1996) (32)
- From Collective Violence to a Common Future: Four Models for Dealing with a Traumatic Past (2009) (31)
- To Remember or to Forget: Which Way Out of a Shared History of Violence? (2012) (26)
- Transformations of the Modern Time Regime (2013) (26)
- Translation as Transformation (1997) (26)
- Identities : time, difference, and boundaries (2002) (23)
- Memory, Migration and Guilt (2013) (21)
- Neda — the Career of a Global Icon (2010) (19)
- From Cult to Culture: Fragments toward a Critique of Historical Reason (2009) (15)
- One land and three narratives: Palestinian sites of memory in Israel (2018) (11)
- Limits of Understanding: Generational Identities in Recent German Memory Literature (2006) (10)
- Empathy and its Limits (2016) (9)
- Two Forms of Resentment: Jean Amery, Martin Walser and German Memorial Culture (2003) (9)
- The religious roots of cultural memory (2008) (9)
- Civilizing Societies: Recognition and Respect in a Global World (2013) (8)
- Response to Peter Novick (2007) (8)
- Transnational Memory and the Construction of History through Mass Media (2016) (7)
- Authenticity - The Signature of Western Exceptionalism? (2012) (7)
- Memories of Post-imperial Nations (2015) (6)
- Exorcising the demon of chronology : T. S. Eliot's reinvention of tradition (2007) (6)
- History and Memory (2001) (5)
- Theories of Cultural Memory and the Concept of ‘Afterlife’ (2015) (4)
- The Transformative Power of Memory (2013) (4)
- 1. Transformations of Holocaust Memory Frames of transmission and mediation (2015) (4)
- A Spectre is Haunting Germany: The Mbembe Debate and the New Antisemitism (2020) (4)
- Is Time out of Joint? (2020) (4)
- ’The Whole Country Is a Monument’: Framing Places of Terror in Post-War Germany (2014) (3)
- The future of cultural heritage and its challenges (2018) (3)
- Impact and Resonance : Towards a Theory of Emotions in Cultural Memory (2015) (3)
- Rudolf Steiner and contemporary art (2010) (3)
- Ghosts of the Past (2007) (2)
- "Plunging into nothingness" : the politics of cultural memory (2009) (2)
- Spirits, Ghosts, Demons in Shakespeare and Milton (2005) (2)
- Awkward Memories and the Role of Silence: A Commentary on Frank Van Vree's Concept of "Absent Memories" (2013) (2)
- Conclusion: A Creed That Has Lost its Believers? Reconfiguring the Concepts of Time and History (2019) (2)
- Memories of Nazi Germany in the Federal Republic of Germany (2018) (2)
- Towards a New Ethos of History? (2018) (1)
- Cultural and Political Frames of Forgetting (2015) (1)
- Introduction [zu: Empathy and its Limits] (2016) (1)
- Cultural Memory (2020) (1)
- The shaping of attention by cultural frames and media technology (2010) (1)
- FROM COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE TO THE COMMON FUTURE : FOUR MODELS FOR DEALING WITH THE TRAUMATIC (2011) (1)
- To Remember or to Forget (2011) (1)
- How History Takes Place (2009) (1)
- Memory of City (2015) (1)
- Memory in the City : the Future of the Past (2015) (1)
- Let’s Go East! (2019) (0)
- Ouroboros. The Circle as a Concept of Infinity (2019) (0)
- Liminal Anthropology in Shakespeare’s Plays (2011) (0)
- Structuralism : great expectations or paradigm lost? A personal reassessment (2010) (0)
- Introduction (2020) (0)
- Time and the Modern (2020) (0)
- 2. Work on the Modern Myth of History (2020) (0)
- Problems in the Explication of Occidental Sign Conceptions (2013) (0)
- Remembering and Forgetting Phantoms of Remembrance: Social Memory and Oblivion in Medieval History after Twenty Years (2021) (0)
- 4. Concepts of Time in Late Modernity (2020) (0)
- Aegyptiaca. Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt Exploring Aegyptiaca and their Material Agency throughout Global History 1 (2019) (0)
- Never Ending Stories (2017) (0)
- Authenticity – The Signature of Western Exceptionalism? (2012) (0)
- Conclusion (2020) (0)
- (In)visible Monuments. What Makes Monuments Controversial? (2022) (0)
- A Reply to Gottfried Seebass (2000) (0)
- Learning from History? The Crisis and Future of the European Project (2019) (0)
- Concepts of Time in Late Modernity (2020) (0)
- Response to Peter György : 'Memory Fallen Apart : the Case of Two Cemeteries” (2013) (0)
- Erasmus Medal Lecture 2019, AE GM Barcelona. Re-imagining the Nation: Memory, Identity and the Emotions (2020) (0)
- Michael Cunningham’s The Hours: Homage to the Book in a Time of Media Transformation (2019) (0)
- Five Aspects of the Modern Temporal Regime (2020) (0)
- EXODUS, RITUAL, COGNITION—AND MEMORY (2014) (0)
- 5. Is Time out of Joint? (2020) (0)
- Endangered Scholars Worldwide (2014) (0)
- Schlussbemerkungen (2007) (0)
- National self-criticism as a processing of the past: Memory politics in East Central European literature and film (2019) (0)
- Redefining the Human. A Survey of Approaches to Literary Anthropology (2000) (0)
- The Aftermath of Trauma: Postmemory in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun (2015) (0)
- Abstracts and Biobliographical Notes (2006) (0)
- âThe Whole Country Is a Monumentâ (2014) (0)
- Empathy for Empathy’s Sake: Aesthetics and Everyday Empathic Sadism (2017) (0)
- Go East! (2020) (0)
- Prologue (2020) (0)
- Aleida Assmann Transformations of the Modern Time Regime (2014) (0)
- Vorwort [zu: From popular Goethe to global pop : the idea of the West between memory and (dis)empowerment] (2013) (0)
- 1. Time and the Modern (2020) (0)
- Work on the Modern Myth of History (2020) (0)
- The Past Is Not Past; or, On Repairing the Modern Time Regime (2020) (0)
- “Plunging into nothingness”: The politics of cultural memory (2008) (0)
- Looking Away in Nazi Germany (2016) (0)
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