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Lessons from the Past? - Memory, Narrativity and Subjectivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016) Loot Price: R4,261
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Lessons from the Past? - Memory, Narrativity and Subjectivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Bernhard Forchtner

Lessons from the Past? - Memory, Narrativity and Subjectivity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

Bernhard Forchtner

Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

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This book reconstructs how claims to know 'the lessons' from past wrongdoings are made useful in the present. These claims are powerful tools in contemporary debates over who we are, who we want to be and what we should do. Drawing on a wide range of spoken and written texts from Austria, Denmark, Germany and the United States, this book proposes an abstract framework through which such claims can be understood. It does so by conceptualising four rhetorics of learning and how each of them links memories of past wrongdoings to opposition to present and future wrongdoings. Drawing extensively on narrative theory, Lessons from the Past? reconstructs how links between past, present and future can be narrativised, thus helping to understand the subjectivities and feelings that these stories facilitate. The book closes by considering if and how such rhetorics might live up to their promise to know 'the lessons' and to enable learning, offering a revised theory of collective learning processes.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
Release date: November 2016
First published: 2016
Authors: Bernhard Forchtner
Dimensions: 210 x 148 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 234
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-137-48321-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > Humanities > History > World history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography
Books > History > World history > General
LSN: 1-137-48321-0
Barcode: 9781137483218

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