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Memory and (Dissemi) Nation: Völkerschlachtdenkmal and Deutsche Bücherei at Leipzig 1813/1913 Between Real Bones and Symbolic Letters 1
Author(s) -
ERNST WOLFGANG
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6443.1995.tb00170.x
Subject(s) - battle , german , dimension (graph theory) , the symbolic , history , event (particle physics) , space (punctuation) , art history , set (abstract data type) , art , classics , archaeology , linguistics , computer science , philosophy , psychology , mathematics , pure mathematics , programming language , physics , quantum mechanics , psychoanalysis
At Leipzig, the monument to the victorious battle against Napoleon in 1813 was inaugurated one hundred years after the event. The article raises the questions: how far is the authority of the monument dependent on material relics (bones) and what correspondences are there between symbolic commemoration and the infrastructure of national memory as represented by the neighbouring German Library at Leipzig. The dimension of sacred space and time’ is set against the hardware of agencies of memory, while an archaeological perception serves methodologically as a challenge to historical discourse in processing the material or textual archives of the past.