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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Clift, Sarah
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Oxford : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Narrative Life Span, in the Wake: Benjamin and Arendt; 2. Memory in Theory: The Childhood Memories of John Locke (Persons, Parrots); 3. Mourning Memory: The "End" of Art or, Reading (in) the Spirit of Hegel; 4. Speculating on the Past, the Impact of the Present: Hegel and His Time(s); 5. In Lieu of a Last Word: Maurice Blanchot and the Future of Memory (Today); Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.