03132nam 22005175 450 991015164230332120200424112023.00-226-75846-X10.7208/9780226399294(CKB)3710000000948615(MiAaPQ)EBC4745272(StDuBDS)EDZ0001597076(DE-B1597)523958(OCoLC)963935714(DE-B1597)9780226399294(EXLCZ)99371000000094861520200424h20162016 fg engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCollective Memory and the Historical Past /Jeffrey Andrew BarashChicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (279 pages)Description based on print version of record.Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Sources of Memory -- Part 1. Symbolic Embodiment, Imagination, and the "Place" of Collective Memory -- Part 2. Time, Collective Memory, and the Historical Past -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexThere 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 important limitations to its scope in relation to the historical past. Crucial to Barash's analysis is a look at the radical transformations that the symbolic configurations of collective memory have undergone with the rise of new technologies of mass communication. He provocatively demonstrates how such technologies' capacity to simulate direct experience-especially via the image-actually makes more palpable collective memory'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 literature-specifically writers such as Marcel Proust, Walter Scott, and W. G. Sebald-to uncover subtle nuances of temporality that might offer inconspicuous emblems of a past historical reality. Collective memoryMemorySocial aspectsCollective memoryPhilosophyElectronic books.Collective memory.MemorySocial aspects.Collective memoryPhilosophy.128.3NB 3400rvkBarash Jeffrey Andrew, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut171220DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910151642303321Collective Memory and the Historical Past2281599UNINA