Abstract
This article argues for a reconsideration of Adorno’s “The Meaning of Working through the Past” in light of recent scholarship on Germany and Eastern Europe in World War II, including Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands . Adorno’s influential essay is shown to be marked by the spatial politics of the Cold War. A redefinition of the “spatial turn” through Luhmann’s sociology is proposed; space may be understood as a form of historical and cultural semantics. The place of space in Adorno’s other work is discussed. Respecifying Adorno’s model of memory helps re-specify recent tendencies to its global generalization.
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