Memory Histories, Theories, Debates

Name: Memory Histories, Theories, Debates
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ISBN: 9780823232604

ISBN-10: 0823232603

ISBN-13: 9780823232604

Edition: 3rd 2010

Authors: Susannah Radstone, Bill Schwarz

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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, a range of contributors address the question of how…

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List price: $40.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 7/8/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 500
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.134
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Mapping Memory




Histories



Epochs



How to Make a Composition: Memory-Craft in Antiquity and in the Middle Ages




The Reformation of Memory in Early Modern Europe




Memory, Temporality, Modernity: Les lieux de mï¿½moire




Imagining Modern Memory



Bergson on Memory




Halbwachs and the Social Properties of Memory




Memory in Freud




Proust: The Music of Memory




Siegfried Kracauer and Walter Benjamin: Memory from Weimar to Hitler




Adorno on the Destruction of Memory




Acts of Memory and Mourning: Derrida and the Fictions of Anteriority




Deleuze and the Overcoming of Memory




How Memory Works



The Inner Self



Memory and the Unconscious




Memories Are Made of This




Memory and Cognition




Physiological Memory Systems




Subjectivity and the Social



Memory-Talk: London Childhoods




Affect and Embodiment




Telling Stories: Memory and Narrative




Public Memory



Ritual and Memory




A Long War: Public Memory and the Popular Media




Sites of Memory




Cinema and Memory




Machines of Memory




Controversies



Slavery, Historicism, and the Poverty of Memorialization




Soviet Memories: Patriotism and Trauma




The Witness in the Archive: Holocaust Studies/Memory Studies




The Long Afterlife of Loss




Migration, Food, Memory, and Home-Building




The Seventh Veil: Feminism, Recovered Memory, and the Politics of the Unconscious




The Gender of Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa



Afterword



Notes


List of Contributors


Index