Das Kulturelle Gedächtnis by Aleida Assmann
The work distinguishes between communicative memory—everyday, living recollections passed through interpersonal interaction across a few generations—and cultural memory, which is deliberately externalized, institutionalized, and stored in texts, rituals, monuments, archives and media; it shows how societies transform ephemeral experience into durable forms that sustain identity, legitimize social orders and enable historical consciousness. It analyzes the mechanisms (canonization, ritualization, archival practices and media technologies) that stabilize the past, examines the temporal horizons and social functions of different memory forms, and reflects on the tensions between remembering and forgetting, especially in modern societies confronting traumatic or contested histories.
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