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Memory - Histories, Theories, Debates (Hardcover)
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Memory - Histories, Theories, Debates (Hardcover)
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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.
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