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The Work of Forgetting - Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible? (Hardcover)
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The Work of Forgetting - Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible? (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophical Projections
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For over fifty years the concept of memory has played a crucial
role in a large number of academic and societal debates. The Work
of Forgetting: Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible? draws
attention to the limits of the academic field of memory studies. It
argues that the faculty of memory offers an inadequate response to
the challenges of the present. The book sets up a dialogue between
the philosophies of forgetting that underlie the writings of
Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, and the
philosophies of memory that inform the work of Sigmund Freud,
Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. It builds on the idea that
history is inseparable from a type of transience that cannot be
counter-acted by the preserving work of memory and develops a new
understanding of the phenomenon of forgetting in which the passage
of time is asserted in thought and thus made productive.
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