Collective Memory and the Historical Past

Jeffrey Andrew Barash (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2016
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-39915-7 (ISBN)

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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 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.

Jeffrey Andrew Barash is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Amiens in France. He is the author or editor of many books, including, most recently, Martin Heidegger and the Problem of Historical Meaning and The Social Construction of Reality, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2016
Reihe/Serie	Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
Sprache	englisch
Maße	16 x 23 mm
Gewicht	539 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
ISBN-10	0-226-39915-X / 022639915X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-39915-7 / 9780226399157
Zustand	Neuware