Die Wiedererfindung Der Nation by Aleida Assmann

Examines how national identity is continually reconstructed through cultural memory and public discourse, using the transformations after the Cold War as a point of departure; it explores how institutions, commemorations, education and media mediate collective remembrance, how societies confront traumatic pasts while negotiating transnational and European influences, and argues for a reflective, democratically anchored form of national political culture rather than uncritical nationalism.