Reinventing Tradition and the Politics of History: Schüssel’s Restitution and Commemoration Policies
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29 septembre 2016
- handle: 10670/1.di39sj
- isbn: 9783902719294
- eisbn: 9783903122437
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Günter Bischof et al., « Reinventing Tradition and the Politics of History: Schüssel’s Restitution and Commemoration Policies », innsbruck university press, ID : 10670/1.di39sj
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“Human beings’ ability to rewrite the past to suit the present—and especially to recast our individual complicity with a shameful past—is testament to the creativity and ingenuity of the species. It is a phenomenon whenever one official orthodoxy gives way to another.” Introduction During his six years in office, Wolfgang Schüssel’s ambivalent political history (Geschichtspolitik) was as active, if not more so, than that of any postwar Austrian chancellor. One has to assume that his coalition...