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245 10 a| Collective memory and the historical past /c| Jeffrey Andrew Barash.;

264 1 a| Chicago ;a| London :b| The University of Chicago Press,c| [2016];

300 a| x, 268 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-258) and index.;

505 00 g| Introduction.t| The sources of memory --g| Symbolic embodiment, imagination, and the "place" of collective memory.t| Is collective memory a figment of the imagination? The scope of memory in the public sphere --t| Analyzing collective memory --t| Thresholds of personal identity and public experience --g| Excursus.t| Critical reflections: the contemporary theories of Ricœur, Edelman, and Nora --g| Time, collective memory, and the historical past.t| Temporal articulations --t| Virtual experience, the mass media, and the configuration of the public sphere --t| The contextualized past: collective memory and historical understanding --g| Conclusion.t| The province of collective memory and its theoretical promise.;

520 8 a| 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.;

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Collective memory and the historical past / Jeffrey Andrew Barash.

Author/creator	Barash, Jeffrey Andrew author.
Format	Book
Publication	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
Description	x, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects	Collective memory. Memory--Social aspects. Collective memory--Philosophy.

Contents	Introduction. The sources of memory -- Symbolic embodiment, imagination, and the "place" of collective memory. Is collective memory a figment of the imagination? The scope of memory in the public sphere -- Analyzing collective memory -- Thresholds of personal identity and public experience -- Excursus. Critical reflections: the contemporary theories of Ricœur, Edelman, and Nora -- Time, collective memory, and the historical past. Temporal articulations -- Virtual experience, the mass media, and the configuration of the public sphere -- The contextualized past: collective memory and historical understanding -- Conclusion. The province of collective memory and its theoretical promise.
Summary	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-258) and index.
LCCN	2016016553
ISBN	9780226399157 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	022639915X (cloth : alk. paper)

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