Sterblichkeit und Erinnerung

Whoever speaks of memory must not remain silent about death. The preservation of knowledge, events and also sensations, etc. gains its importance precisely through the fundamental transience of human activity. The memory of the lifeworld of the deceased therefore does not provide authentic documentation, but is predetermined by socially handed-down concepts of remembering (or not remembering). Against this background, the contributions in this volume deal with the relationship between memory and reference to the past in the context of the tense interplay between mortality, death and society.

With contributions by
Thorsten Benkel, Ekkehard Coenen, Oliver Dimbath, Jan Ferdinand, Carsten Heinze, Matthias Meitzler, Christoph Nienhaus, Melanie Pierburg, Sarah Peuten, Leonie Schmickler, Laura Völkle, Lara Weiss and Nico Wettmann.