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Collective Memory and the Historical Past
Taschenbuch von Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Sprache: Englisch

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There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel roles in a modern era otherwise characterized by discontinuity and dislocation. Drawing on recent theoretical explorations of collective memory, he elaborates an important new philosophical basis for it, one that unveils profound limitations to its scope in relation to the historical past. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Crucial to Barashâ¿s analysis is a look at the radical transformations that symbolic configurations of collective memory have undergone with the rise of new technologies of mass communication. He provocatively demonstrates how such technologiesâ¿ capacity to simulate direct experienceâ¿especially via the imageâ¿actually makes more palpable collective memoryâ¿s limitations and the opacity of the historical past, which always lies beyond the reach of living memory. Thwarting skepticism, however, he eventually looks to literatureâ¿specifically writers such as Walter Scott, Marcel Proust, and W. G. Sebaldâ¿to uncover subtle nuances of temporality that might offer inconspicuous emblems of a past historical reality.
There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel roles in a modern era otherwise characterized by discontinuity and dislocation. Drawing on recent theoretical explorations of collective memory, he elaborates an important new philosophical basis for it, one that unveils profound limitations to its scope in relation to the historical past. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Crucial to Barashâ¿s analysis is a look at the radical transformations that symbolic configurations of collective memory have undergone with the rise of new technologies of mass communication. He provocatively demonstrates how such technologiesâ¿ capacity to simulate direct experienceâ¿especially via the imageâ¿actually makes more palpable collective memoryâ¿s limitations and the opacity of the historical past, which always lies beyond the reach of living memory. Thwarting skepticism, however, he eventually looks to literatureâ¿specifically writers such as Walter Scott, Marcel Proust, and W. G. Sebaldâ¿to uncover subtle nuances of temporality that might offer inconspicuous emblems of a past historical reality.
Über den Autor
Jeffrey Andrew Barash is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Amiens in France. He is the author or editor of many books, including Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning and The Social Construction of Reality: The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 280
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226758466
ISBN-10: 022675846X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Barash, Jeffrey Andrew
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 226 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.11.2020
Gewicht: 0,374 kg
preigu-id: 118867074
Über den Autor
Jeffrey Andrew Barash is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Amiens in France. He is the author or editor of many books, including Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning and The Social Construction of Reality: The Legacy of Ernst Cassirer, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 280
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780226758466
ISBN-10: 022675846X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Barash, Jeffrey Andrew
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 226 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.11.2020
Gewicht: 0,374 kg
preigu-id: 118867074
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