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Author(s): Paul Ricoeur
ISBN(s): 9780226713410, 0226713415
Edition: 1
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Year: 2004
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0226713415 
ISBN 13: 9780226713410
Author: Paul Ricoeur

Why do major historical events such as the Holocaust occupy the forefront of the collective consciousness, while profound moments such as the Armenian genocide, the McCarthy era, and France’s role in North Africa stand distantly behind? Is it possible that history “overly remembers” some events at the expense of others? A landmark work in philosophy, Paul Ricoeur’s Memory, History, Forgetting examines this reciprocal relationship between remembering and forgetting, showing how it affects both the perception of historical experience and the production of historical narrative. Memory, History, Forgetting, like its title, is divided into three major sections. Ricoeur first takes a phenomenological approach to memory and mnemonical devices. The underlying question here is how a memory of present can be of something absent, the past. The second section addresses recent work by historians by reopening the question of the nature and truth of historical knowledge. Ricoeur explores whether historians, who can write a history of memory, can truly break with all dependence on memory, including memories that resist representation. The third and final section is a profound meditation on the necessity of forgetting as a condition for the possibility of remembering, and whether there can be something like happy forgetting in parallel to happy memory. Throughout the book there are careful and close readings of the texts of Aristotle and Plato, of Descartes and Kant, and of Halbwachs and Pierre Nora. A momentous achievement in the career of one of the most significant philosophers of our age, Memory, History, Forgetting provides the crucial link between Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative and Oneself as Another and his recent reflections on ethics and the problems of responsibility and representation. “His success in revealing the internal relations between recalling and forgetting, and how this dynamic becomes problematic in light of events once present but now past, will inspire academic dialogue and response but also holds great appeal to educated general readers in search of both method for and insight from considering the ethical ramifications of modern events. . . . It is indeed a master work, not only in Ricoeur’s own vita but also in contemporary European philosophy.”—Library Journal  “Ricoeur writes the best kind of philosophy—critical, economical, and clear.”— New York Times Book Review

Memory History Forgetting 1st Table of contents:

PART I: ON MEMORY AND RECOLLECTION

Chapter 1: Memory and Imagination

  • Reading Guidelines

  • The Greek Heritage

  • A Phenomenological Sketch of Memory

  • Memories and Images

Chapter 2: The Exercise of Memory: Uses and Abuses

  • Reading Guidelines

  • The Abuses of Artificial Memory: The Feats of Memorization

  • The Abuses of Natural Memory: Blocked Memory, Manipulated Memory, Abusively Controlled Memory

Chapter 3: Personal Memory, Collective Memory

  • Reading Guidelines

  • The Tradition of Inwardness

  • The External Gaze: Maurice Halbwachs

  • Three Subjects of the Attribution of Memories: Ego, Collectives, Close Relations

PART II: HISTORY, EPISTEMOLOGY

Prelude: History – Remedy or Poison?

Chapter 1: The Documentary Phase – Archived Memory

  • Reading Guidelines

  • Inhabited Space

  • Historical Time

  • Testimony

  • The Archive

  • Documentary Proof

Chapter 2: Explanation / Understanding

  • Reading Guidelines

  • Promoting the History of Mentalities

  • Some Advocates of Rigor: Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Norbert Elias

  • Variations in Scale

  • From the Idea of Mentality to That of Representation

  • The Dialectic of Representation

Chapter 3: The Historian’s Representation

  • Reading Guidelines

  • Representation and Narration

  • Representation and Rhetoric

  • The Historian’s Representation and the Prestige of the Image

  • Standing For

PART III: THE HISTORICAL CONDITION

Prelude: The Burden of History and the Nonhistorical

Chapter 1: The Critical Philosophy of History

  • Reading Guidelines

  • “Die Geschichte Selber,” “History Itself”

  • “Our” Modernity

  • The Historian and the Judge

  • Interpretation in History

Chapter 2: History and Time

  • Reading Guidelines

  • Temporality

  • Historicity

  • Within-Timeness: Being-“in”-Time

  • The Uncanniness of History

Chapter 3: Forgetting

  • Reading Guidelines

  • Forgetting and the Effacing of Traces

  • Forgetting and the Persistence of Traces

  • The Forgetting of Recollection: Uses and Abuses

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