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Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault's
Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and
daily life What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in
the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns
and their subjects? How did the police come to understand
themselves as responsible for the circulation of people as much as
things-and to separate law and justice from the maintenance of a
newly emergent civil order? These are among the many questions
addressed in the interpretive essays in Archives of Infamy.
Crisscrossing the Atlantic to bring together unpublished radio
broadcasts, book reviews, and essays by historians, geographers,
and political theorists, Archives of Infamy provides historical and
archival contexts to the recent translation of Disorderly Families
by Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault. This volume includes new
translations of key texts, including a radio address Foucault gave
in 1983 that explains the writing process for Disorderly Families;
two essays by Foucault not readily available in English; and a
previously untranslated essay by Farge that describes how
historians have appropriated Foucault. Archives of Infamy pushes
past old debates between philosophers and historians to offer a new
perspective on the crystallization of ideas-of the family, gender
relations, and political power-into social relationships and the
regimes of power they engender. Contributors: Roger Chartier,
College de France; Stuart Elden, U of Warwick; Arlette Farge,
Centre national de recherche scientifique; Michel Foucault
(1926-1984); Jean-Philippe Guinle, Catholic Institute of Paris;
Michel Heurteaux; Pierre Nora, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales; Michael Rey (1953-1993); Thomas Scott-Railton; Elizabeth
Wingrove, U of Michigan.
Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the
recollections of memory but also the foundations of history.
Symbols, the third and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental
Realms of Memory, includes groundbreaking discussions of the
emblems of France's past by some of the nation's most distinguished
intellectuals. The seventeen essays in this book consider such
diverse "sites" of memory as the figures of Joan D'Arc and
Decartes, the national motto of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity",
the tricolor flag and the French language itself. Pierre Nora's
closing essay on commemoration provides a culminating overview of
the series. Offering a new approach on history, culture, French
studies and the studies of symbols, Realms of Memory reveals how
the myriad meanings we attach to places and events constitute our
sense of history. A monumental collective endevour by some of
France's most distinguished intellectuals, Realms of Memory
explores how and why certain places, events, and figures became a
part of France's collective memory, and reveals the intricate
connection between memory and history. Symbols, the third and final
volume, is the culmination of the work begun in Conflicts and
Divisions and Traditions.Pierre Nora inaugurates this final volume
by acknowledging that the whole project of Realms of Memory is
oriented around symbols, claiming "only a symbolic history can
restore to France the unity and dynamism not recognized by either
the man in the street or the academic historian." He goes on to
distinguish between two very different types of symbols - imposed
and constructed. Imposed symbols may be official state emblems like
the tricolor flag or 'La Marsaillaise', or may be monuments like
the Eiffel Tower - symbols imbued with a sense of history.
COnstructes symbols are produced over the passage of time, by human
effort, and by history itself.They include figures such as Joan
d'Arc, Descartes, and the Gallic cock.Past I, Emblems, traces the
development of four major national symbols from the time of the
Revolution: the tricolor flag, the national anthem (La
Marsaillaise), the motto Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" and
Bastille Day. Far from having fixed identities, these
representations of the French nations are shown to have undergone
transformations. As French republics rose and regimes changed, the
emblems of the French state - and the meanings accosiated with them
- were also altered.Part II, Major Sites, focuses on those cities
and structures that act as beacons of France to both Frenchman and
foreigner. These essays range from the prehistory paintings in
Lascaux - that cave which, though not originally French in any
sense, has become the very symbol of France's immemorial national
memory - to Verdun, the site of the terrible World War I battle,
now a symbol of the nation's heaviest sacrifice for the "salvation
of the fatehrland" and the most powerful image of French national
unity.Identifications, the final section, explores the ways in
which the French think of themselves. From the cock - that "rustic
and quintessentially Gallic bird" - to the figures of Joan of Arc
and Descartes, to the nation's twin hearts - Paris and the French
language - the memory of the French people is explored.This final
installment of Realms of Memory provides a major contribution not
only to study the French nation and culture, but also to the study
of symbols as cultural phenomena, offering, as Nora observes, "the
possibility of revelation."
Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the
recollections of memory but also the foundations of history.
Symbols, the third and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental
Realms of Memory, includes groundbreaking discussions of the
emblems of France's past by some of the nation's most distinguished
intellectuals. The seventeen essays in this book consider such
diverse "sites" of memory as the figures of Joan D'Arc and
Decartes, the national motto of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity",
the tricolor flag and the French language itself. Pierre Nora's
closing essay on commemoration provides a culminating overview of
the series. Offering a new approach on history, culture, French
studies and the studies of symbols, Realms of Memory reveals how
the myriad meanings we attach to places and events constitute our
sense of history.
Archives, monuments, celebrations:there are not merely the
recollections of memory but also the foundations of history.
Symbols, the third and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental
Realms of Memory, includes groundbreaking discussions of the
emblems of France's past by some of the nation's most distinguished
intellectuals. The seventeen essays in this book consider such
diverse "sites" of memory as the figures of Joan D'Arc and
Decartes, the national motto of "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity",
the tricolor flag and the French language itself. Pierre Nora's
closing essay on commemoration provides a culminating overview of
the series. Offering a new approach on history, culture, French
studies and the studies of symbols, Realms of Memory reveals how
the myriad meanings we attach to places and events constitute our
sense of history.
"Les Lieux de memoire" is perhaps one of the most profound
historical documents on the history and culture of the French
nation. Assembled by Pierre Nora during the Mitterand years, this
multivolume series has been hailed as "a magnificent achievement"
("The New Republic") and "the grandest, most ambitious effort to
dissect, interpret and celebrate the French fascination with their
own past" ("The Los Angeles Times"). Written during a time when
French national identity was undergoing a pivotal change and the
nation was struggling to define itself, this unprecedented series
consists of essays by prominent historians and cultural
commentators which take, as their points of departure, a "lieu de
memoire": a site of memory used to order, concentrate, and secure
notions of France's past.
The first volume in the Chicago translation, "Rethinking France, "
brings together works addressing the omnipresent role of the state
in French life. As in the other volumes, the "lieux de memoire"
serve as entries into the French past, whether they are actual
sites, political traditions, rituals, or even national pastimes and
textbooks. "Volume I: The State" offers a sophisticated and
engaging view of the French and their past through widely diverse
essays on, for example, the chateau of Versailles and the French
history of absolutism; the "Code civil" and its ordering of French
life; memoirs written by French statesmen; and Charlemagne and his
place in French history. Nora's authors constitute a who's who of
French academia, yet they wear their erudition lightly. Taken as a
whole, this extraordinary series documents how the French have come
to see themselves and why.
Contributors:
Alain Guery
Maurice Agulhon
Bernard Guenee
Daniel Nordman
Robert Morrissey
Alain Boureau
Anne-Marie Lecoq
Helene Himelfarb
Jean Carbonnier
Herve Le Bras
Pierre Nora
Expanding the insights of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault's
Disorderly Families into policing, public order, (in)justice, and
daily life What might it mean for ordinary people to intervene in
the circulation of power between police and the streets, sovereigns
and their subjects? How did the police come to understand
themselves as responsible for the circulation of people as much as
things-and to separate law and justice from the maintenance of a
newly emergent civil order? These are among the many questions
addressed in the interpretive essays in Archives of Infamy.
Crisscrossing the Atlantic to bring together unpublished radio
broadcasts, book reviews, and essays by historians, geographers,
and political theorists, Archives of Infamy provides historical and
archival contexts to the recent translation of Disorderly Families
by Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault. This volume includes new
translations of key texts, including a radio address Foucault gave
in 1983 that explains the writing process for Disorderly Families;
two essays by Foucault not readily available in English; and a
previously untranslated essay by Farge that describes how
historians have appropriated Foucault. Archives of Infamy pushes
past old debates between philosophers and historians to offer a new
perspective on the crystallization of ideas-of the family, gender
relations, and political power-into social relationships and the
regimes of power they engender. Contributors: Roger Chartier,
College de France; Stuart Elden, U of Warwick; Arlette Farge,
Centre national de recherche scientifique; Michel Foucault
(1926-1984); Jean-Philippe Guinle, Catholic Institute of Paris;
Michel Heurteaux; Pierre Nora, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales; Michael Rey (1953-1993); Thomas Scott-Railton; Elizabeth
Wingrove, U of Michigan.
This 1985 book presents a selection of ten of the most significant
contributions to Faire de l'histoire, a major three-volume
exposition of the fresh state of French historiography first
published in 1974. All the essays were commissioned from historians
representing the best of the 'Annales' tradition, including
Emmanuel le Roy Ladurie, Francois Furet and Georges Duby. The first
five essays concentrate upon the physical world, and deal with some
of the more familiar aspects of 'new history'; the second half of
the book is concerned with the unconscious world of mentalites, the
network of belief, symbol and cultural practice that is attracting
the attention of historians in ever-increasing numbers. In an
introduction Colin Lucas places the essays in this collection
within the long-term development of French historical study, and
assesses not only its great strengths but also some of the doubts
and dilemmas to which it has given rise.
How do we visualize a state or a nation? Some might imagine
territory--the borders that divide countries, that mark the space
where power is exercised and history evolves. Others might picture
natural aspects like mountains, rivers, and landscapes that make
their own country distinct. For Pierre Nora, these are historical
and geographical conceptions of "space." And, in the case of the
French, these conceptions are not separate but instead uniquely
linked. They are key to understanding French national
identity.
In "Space," the second volume in the University of Chicago Press's
translation of Nora's ambitious "Les Lieux de memoire," a group of
France's leading historians and cultural commentators call
attention to the meaning of space for the French and the firm
connection between the nation's history and its geography. The
essays gathered here cover the most essential approaches to French
space: external and internal boundaries, the base unit of local
space, and the mental construction that gives a general idea of the
concept of landscape. The analyses focus on three aspects of
natural boundaries: the forest, the north and the south, and the
coastline. Each region of France, they show, is a space of memory
that is the fruit of all the knowledge that gives it statistical,
cartographical, geological, and historical shape.
A crucial piece in Nora's profound historical project on the way
the French understand themselves, this volume will be appreciated
by any critical thinker with an interest in French history,
politics, culture, or philosophy.
The fourth and final volume in Pierre Nora's monumental series
documenting the history and culture of France takes a
self-reflective turn. The eleven essays collected here consider the
texts and places that make up the collective memory of the history
of France, a country whose people are extraordinarily conscious of
history and their place in it. Distinguished contributors look at
the medieval Grands chroniques de France and the monasteries and
chancelleries that produced them, the establishment of Versailles
as a historical museum, and Pierre Larousse's Grand dictionnaire,
an important touchstone of cultural memory. Other essays of this
title range in topic from the creation of the National Archives, a
curiously organized catacomb of manuscripts, to Annales, a
publication begun in 1929 that profoundly revitalized the study of
history in France. Taken together, these richly detailed essays
fully explore the multifaceted ways France has institutionalized
its history and are, along with the rest of Les Lieux de memoire, a
crucial part of that process.
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