Memory, History, Forgetting (Paperback, New edition)

Why do major historical events such as the Holocaust occupy the forefront of the collective consciousness, while profound moments such as the Armenian genocide, the McCarthy era, and France's role in North Africa stand distantly behind? Is it possible that history "overly remembers" some events at the expense of others? A landmark work in philosophy, Paul Ricoeur's "Memory, History, Forgetting" examines this reciprocal relationship between remembering and forgetting, showing how it affects both the perception of historical experience and the production of historical narrative.
"Memory, History, Forgetting," like its title, is divided into three major sections. Ricoeur first takes a phenomenological approach to memory and mnemonical devices. The underlying question here is how a memory of present can be of something absent, the past. The second section addresses recent work by historians by reopening the question of the nature and truth of historical knowledge. Ricoeur explores whether historians, who can write a history of memory, can truly break with all dependence on memory, including memories that resist representation. The third and final section is a profound meditation on the necessity of forgetting as a condition for the possibility of remembering, and whether there can be something like happy forgetting in parallel to happy memory. Throughout the book there are careful and close readings of the texts of Aristotle and Plato, of Descartes and Kant, and of Halbwachs and Pierre Nora.
A momentous achievement in the career of one of the most significant philosophers of our age, "Memory, History, Forgetting" provides the crucial link between Ricoeur's "Time and Narrative" and"Oneself as Another" and his recent reflections on ethics and the problems of responsibility and representation.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2006
First published:	October 2006
Authors:	Paul Ricoeur • Kathleen Blamey • David Pellauer
Dimensions:	228 x 151 x 42mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	642
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-71342-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-226-71342-3
Barcode:	9780226713427

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