The politics of memory and forgetting after Auschwitz and apartheid

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dc.contributor.authorDuvenage, Pieter
dc.date.accessioned1999-06-11T10:15:02Z
dc.date.available1999-06-11T10:15:02Z
dc.date.issued1999-06-11T10:15:02Z
dc.descriptionPaper presented at the Wits History Workshop: The TRC; Commissioning the Past, 11-14 June, 1999en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article focuses on the politics of memory and forgetting after Auschwitz and apartheid. In the first two sections Habermas's critical contribution to the German Historikerstreit is discussed. Important in this regard is the moral dimension of our relation to the past. In the next two sections the emphasis shifts to South Africa and more specifically the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The article ends with a general discussion of the dilemma of historical "truth" and representation in contemporary societies.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/7767
dc.subjectHistoryen_US
dc.subjectHabermasen_US
dc.subjectHistorikerstreiten_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectApartheiden_US
dc.titleThe politics of memory and forgetting after Auschwitz and apartheiden_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US
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