Germany As a Culture of Remembrance: Promises And Limits of Writing HistoryUNC Press Books, 2006 - 306 pages An acknowledged authority on German history and memory, Alon Confino presents in this volume an original critique of the relations between nationhood, memory, and history, applied to the specific case of Germany. In ten essays (three never before publishe |
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Page 286 - sociological psychology', Mannheim held, had to utilize the results, insights and methods of various psychological schools, not only psychoanalysis. Above all, it had to maintain a social perspective; it had to differentiate itself from all individual psychology as such. 'We cannot jump straight from the general observation of individuals and their psychic mechanisms to the analysis of society. The psychology of society is not a million times that of an individual.