Abstract
AbstractWith a new approach to the Berlin Holocaust Memorial Competitions, this chapter introduces the key aims, theory, and central drive of the monograph. It explains why the book probes the concepts of empathic unsettlement, different forms of empathy, and empathy’s link to cultural memory. In doing so, the chapter shows why these concepts are intrinsic to analysing selected designs, because through these designs, visitors would be closer to victims’ experiences but without seeing the Holocaust mimetically. Analysing counter-monument designs is also justified, so too an explanation of why the memorial museum is discussed in relation to Eisenman’s abstract design and its Information Centre. Political and national memory in regard to the prospect of a German national Holocaust memorial is rationalised, and the monograph’s methodology is also outlined.
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