Memory has never been closer to us, yet never more difficult to understand. In the more than thirty specially commissioned essays that make up this book, leading scholars survey the histories, the theories, and the faultlines that compose the field of memory research.
The volume reconstructs the work of the great philosophical and literary figures of the last two centuries who recast the concept of memory and brought it into the forefront of the modernist and postmodernist imagination―among them, Bergson, Halbwachs, Freud, Proust, Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida, and Deleuze. Drawing on recent advances in the sciences and in the humanities, the contributors address the
question of how memory works, highlighting transactions between the interiority of subjective memory and the larger fields of public or collective memory.
The public, political life of memory is an increasingly urgent issue in the societies we now inhabit, while the category of memory itself seems to become ever more capacious.
Asking how we might think about the politics of memory, the closing chapters explore a number of defining instances in which the troubled phenomenon of memory has entered and reshaped our very conception of what makes and drives the domain of politics. These include issues of slavery, the Soviet experience, the Holocaust, feminism and recovered memory, and memory in post-apartheid South Africa.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
“Amidst the burgeoning profusion of contemporary writings about memory, this imposing collection now deserves pride of place. From multiple perspectives and diverse disciplines, it offers the very best of access to the complicated ground from which the problems of “history” and “memory”
may now be engaged. There is no better guide to be found.”
A remarkably comprehensive and interdisciplinary compilation of recent
thought and scholarship on memory. Provocative, incisive, accessible, and
sometimes superb, these essays lead us, like memory itself, from the past
to the future of the subject.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
£ 3.20
Within U.S.A.
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0823232603
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0823232603
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0823232603
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0823232603
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience. Seller Inventory # GoldenDragon0823232603
Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9780823232604
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLIING23Feb2416190245192
Book Description Softcover. Condition: New. Special order direct from the distributor. Seller Inventory # ING9780823232604
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 3rd edition. 500 pages. 9.50x7.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # x-0823232603
Book Description Condition: New. pp. 500. Seller Inventory # 26977111