Practices of Restitution: Law and Aesthetics in Modern Germany

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Practices of Restitution: Law and Aesthetics in Modern Germany

By Laura Petersen
Cambridge University Press January 2026

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9781009514910
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
January 2026
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Hardback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Since the end of the Second World War, restitution in Germany – Wiedergutmachung – has been mainly understood as part of state or private law. This book offers a different approach, arguing that authors and artists have also taken up a responsibility for restitution. Deploying the literal translation 'making-good-again', this book focuses on the 'making' of law, literature and visual art to argue that restitution is a practice which is found in different genres, sites and temporalities.

The practices of restitution identified are dynamic, iterative and incomplete: they are practices of failure. Nevertheless, in this book, the question of how to conduct restitution emerges as a material question of responsibility asked through the making of texts and objects in different genres, including law. The resulting text is a unique expansion and re-conceptualisation of the practices of jurisprudence, restitution and responsibility in the context of the aftermath in Germany.

Table of Contents

1. Practices of Restitution in the Aftermath: An Introduction
2. Glossing Restitution: Walter Schwarz and Re-forming the Practice of Law
3. Literary Restitution: W. G. Sebald, Alexander Kluge, Heimrad Bäcker and the Responsibilities of Writing
4. Artistic Restitution: Institutions and the Limits of Art by Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter
5. Memorial Restitution: A Walking Tour of Berlin's Memorial Landscape
6. Making-Good-Again? A Conclusion
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