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Memory - A History (Hardcover)
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Memory - A History (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Philosophical Concepts
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In recent decades, memory has become one of the major concepts and
a dominant topic in philosophy, sociology, politics, history,
science, cultural studies, literary theory, and the discussions of
trauma and the Holocaust. In contemporary debates, the concept of
memory is often used rather broadly and thus not always
unambiguously. For this reason, the clarification of the range of
the historical meaning of the concept of memory is a very important
and urgent task. This volume shows how the concept of memory has
been used and appropriated in different historical circumstances
and how it has changed throughout the history of philosophy. In
ancient philosophy, memory was considered a repository of sensible
and mental impressions and was complemented by recollection-the
process of recovering the content of past thoughts and perceptions.
Such an understanding of memory led to the development both of
mnemotechnics and the attempts to locate memory within the
structure of cognitive faculties. In contemporary philosophical and
historical debates, memory frequently substitutes for reason by
becoming a predominant capacity to which one refers when one wants
to explain not only the personal identity but also a historical,
political, or social phenomenon. In contemporary interpretation, it
is memory, and not reason, that acts in and through human actions
and history, which is a critical reaction to the overly
rationalized and simplified concept of reason in the Enlightenment.
Moreover, in modernity memory has taken on one of the most
distinctive features of reason: it is thought of as capable not
only of recollecting past events and meanings, but also itself. In
this respect, the volume can be also taken as a reflective
philosophical attempt by memory to recall itself, its functioning
and transformations throughout its own history.
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