Committing the Future to Memory : : History, Experience, Trauma /

Committing the Future to Memory : : History, Experience, Trauma / / Sarah Clift.

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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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Clift, Sarah,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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

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