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Committing the Future to Memory : History, Experience, Trauma.
Whereas historical determinacy conceives the past as a complex and unstable network of causalities, this book asks how history can be related to a more radical future. To pose that question, it does not reject determinacy outright but rather seeks to explore how it works. In examining what it means...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Fordham University Press,
2013.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Whereas historical determinacy conceives the past as a complex and unstable network of causalities, this book asks how history can be related to a more radical future. To pose that question, it does not reject determinacy outright but rather seeks to explore how it works. In examining what it means to be ""determined"" by history, it also asks what kind of openings there might be in our encounters with history for interruptions, re-readings, and re-writings. Engaging texts spanning multiple genres and several centuries from John Locke to Maurice Blanchot, from Hegel to Benjamin Clift looks at. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (264 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823254231 0823254232 9780823254248 0823254240 |