Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory From: German Quarterly | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: Goebel, Rolf J | Copyright American Association of Teachers of German, Inc. Winter 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Huyssen, Andreas. Present Pasts: Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. 177 pp. $49.50 hardcover, 19.95 paperback.

In some ways a continuation of his influential essay collection Twilight Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (1995), Huyssen's immensely suggestive and insightful new book makes an important contribution to our understanding of the global metropolis as a space for the ever-expanding cultivation of collective memo...

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