Committing the Future to Memory : History, Experience, Trauma

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clift, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford : Fordham University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Locke, John, > 1632-1704.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, > 1770-1831.
Blanchot, Maurice.
Benjamin, Walter, > 1892-1940.
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975.
Historiography > Philosophy.
Civilization, Modern > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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