The Ashgate Research Companion to Memory Studies

Editor: Kattago, Siobhan
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing

Single-User Purchase Price: $149.95
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ISBN: 978-1-4724-0533-3
Category: Psychology
Image Count: 20
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

The original studies presented in the volume are written by leading experts, who emphasize both the continuity of heritage and tradition, as well as the memory of hostilities, traumas and painful events.

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Table of Contents

  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Memory Studies and its Companions - Siobhan Kattago
  • PART I: MEMORY, HISTORY AND TIME
  • 1 History as an Art of Memory Revisited - Patrick H. Hutton
  • 2 Chateaubriand, Selfhood and Memory - Peter Fritzsche
  • 3 Dialectical Memory: The Intersection of Individual and Collective Memory in Hegel - Angelica Nuzzo
  • 4 Spectral Phenomenology: Derrida, Heidegger and the Problem of the Ancestral - Hans Ruin
  • PART II: SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL FRAMEWORKS OF MEMORY
  • 5 Continuity and Innovation in the Art of Memory - Luisa Passerini
  • 6 From Collectivity to Collectiveness: Reflections (with Halbwachs and Bakhtin) on the Concept of Collective Memory - Alexandre Dessingué
  • 7 A Unified Approach to Collective Memory: Sociology, Psychology and the Extended Mind - William Hirst and Charles B. Stone
  • 8 Mannheim and the Sociological Problem of Generations: Events as Inspiration and Constraint - Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi
  • 9 Semiotic Theory of Cultural Memory: In the Company of Juri Lotman - Marek Tamm
  • PART III: ACTS AND PLACES OF MEMORY
  • 10 Travel Companions - Mieke Bal
  • 11 ‘Forked no Lightning’: Remembering and Forgetting in the Shadow of Big Ben - Stuart Burch
  • 12 Written in Stone: Monuments and Representation - Siobhan Kattago
  • 13 Theories of Memory and the Imaginative Force of Fiction - Julie Hansen
  • PART IV: POLITICS OF MEMORY, FORGETTING AND DEMOCRACY
  • 14 Memory and Methodological Cosmopolitanism: A Figurative Approach - Daniel Levy
  • 15 Hannah Arendt and Thomas Paine: Companions in Remembering, Forgetting and Beginning Again - Bradford Vivian
  • 16 Interactions between History and Memory: Historical Truth Commissions and Reconciliation - Eva-Clarita Pettai
  • 17 Post-Stalinist Russia: Memory and Mourning - Alexander Etkind
  • Afterword - Jeffrey K. Olick