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The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe
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Fogu, Claudio, Wulf Kantsteiner, and Richard Ned Lebow, eds. The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.366 pp. $23.95 paperback.
The term "collective memory" has become the standard point of reference in academic descriptions of the processes of memory construction. The editors of the present volume, in their introduction, convincingly criticize this concept for being tantalizingly elusive and difficult to apply with the necessary precision. They could have added the essentializing dimension of most of the collective memory jargon which contradicts its own ...
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