Memory
«The resulting historico-reflective account of the philosophical concept of memory offers a comprehensive treatment of the topic that has grown into an interdisciplinary discourse dominating the humanities today.»
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
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. Les mer
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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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780199793846
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 21 x 14 cm
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«The resulting historico-reflective account of the philosophical concept of memory offers a comprehensive treatment of the topic that has grown into an interdisciplinary discourse dominating the humanities today.»
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
«What Memory: A History decisively demonstrates is that our current obsession with memory has a history.»
Kimberly Rivers, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online