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Record Nr.

UNISA996248216103316

Autore

Ricœur Paul

Titolo

Memory, history, forgetting / / Paul Ricoeur ; translated by Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2004

ISBN

1-282-50432-0

9786612504327

0-226-71346-6

Edizione

[Pbk. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (661 p.)

Disciplina

128.3

128/.3

Soggetti

Memory (Philosophy)

History - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [607]-626) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Preface; PART I ON MEMORY AND RECOLLECTION; Chapter 1 Memory and Imagination; Chapter 2 The Exercise of Memory: Uses and Abuses; Chapter 3 Personal Memory, Collective Memory; PART II HISTORY, EPISTEMOLOGY; Prelude History: Remedy or Poison?; Chapter 1 The Documentary Phase: Archived Memory; Chapter 2 Explanation/Understanding; Chapter 3 The Historian's Representation; PART III THE HISTORICAL CONDITION; Prelude The Burden of History and the Nonhistorical; Chapter 1 The Critical Philosophy of History; Chapter 2 History and Time; Chapter 3 Forgetting; Epilogue Difficult Forgiveness

NotesWorks Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Why do major historical events such as the Holocaust occupy the forefront of the collective consciousness, while profound moments such as the Armenian genocide, the McCarthy era, and France's role in North Africa stand distantly behind? Is it possible that history ""overly remembers"" some events at the expense of others? A landmark work in philosophy, Paul Ricoeur's Memory, History, Forgetting examines this reciprocal relationship between remembering and forgetting, showing how it affects both the perception of historical experience and the



production of historical narrative.<