Summary of Alex von Tunzelmann's Fallen Idols

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 In certain circumstances, statues are more than just stone and metal. They are symbols of individuals, and their symbolism often crosses between the secular and religious.
#2 The culture war binary surrounding the statues issue is a short-hand way for the media to cover the issue, but it overlooks the complex history of how societies around the world have chosen to memorialize and tear down statues.
#3 The debate over monuments and statues is just another example of how historical memory is constructed and challenged. It is important to understand that any written history is merely a map of history, not the actual territory.
#4 The issue of who gets to define our history is extremely important. Leaders can openly oppose freedom of thought and interpretation, and threaten to indoctrinate us with patriotic education.

Sujets

• Général
• 20th century
• modern
• Religion

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 08 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669351184
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Alex von Tunzelmann's Fallen Idols
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Statues are meant to set the past in stone, but that doesn’t always happen. In 2020, statues around the world were pulled down in an extraordinary wave of iconoclasm.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In certain circumstances, statues are more than just stone and metal. They are symbols of individuals, and their symbolism often crosses between the secular and religious.

#2

The culture war binary surrounding the statues issue is a short-hand way for the media to cover the issue, but it overlooks the complex history of how societies around the world have chosen to memorialize and tear down statues.

#3

The debate over monuments and statues is just another example of how historical memory is constructed and challenged. It is important to understand that any written history is merely a map of history, not the actual territory.

#4

The issue of who gets to define our history is extremely important. Leaders can openly oppose freedom of thought and interpretation, and threaten to indoctrinate us with patriotic education.

#5

When statues are torn down, it is usually because they are considered art, and part of a cultural heritage. But this does not mean that all statues have equal artistic worth.

#6

Statues are a very old form of art. They have been around for thousands of years, and have been destroyed countless times for similar reasons.

#7

Statues in the classical style can be found all over Europe and its former colonies, dating back to ancient Greece and Rome.

#8

The Great Man theory, which explained history through the actions of exceptional individuals, was popular in the nineteenth century. Statues of Great Men were often erected in nineteenth-century cities, and this trend continued into the twentieth century.

#9

The Soviet Union spent a lot of money on statues, but other communist countries such as China and Germany took down all Nazi statues and art after the war.

#10

The four most common arguments against removing statues are that it is a slippery slope, that the statues symbolize something important, that it is a violation of free speech, and that it will cause a riot.

#11

The argument that removing statues is an attack on history itself, and that people doing so are misguided, is often used to defend the statues.