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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsMemory, History, Forgettingby Paul Ricoeur
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments: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 Synopsis: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. About the AuthorPaul Ricoeur (1913-2005) was the John Nuveen Professor in the Divinity School, the Department of Philosophy, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His books include Oneself as Another, the three-volume Time and Narrative, and The Just, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Kathleen Blamey teaches philosophy at California State University, East Bay and has taught at the American University in Paris. David Pellauer is professor of philosophy at DePaul University. Table of ContentsPreface Part I - On Memory and Recollection Chapter 1. Memory and Imagination Reading Guidelines The Greek Heritage Plato: The Present Representation of an Absent Thing Aristotle: "Memory Is of the Past" 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 The Pathological-Therapeutic Level: Blocked Memory The Practical Level: Manipulated Memory The Ethico-Political Level: Obligated Memory Chapter 3. Personal Memory, Collective Memory Reading Guidelines The Tradition of Inwardness Augustine Locke Husserl 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 Scale of Efficacy or of Coerciveness The Scale of Degrees of Legitimation The Scale of Nonquantitative Aspects of Social Times 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 Being-toward-Death Death in History Historicity The Trajectory of the Term Geschichtlichkeit Historicity and Historiography Within-Timeness: Being-"in"-Time Along the Path of the Inauthentic Within-Timeness and the Dialectic of Memory and History Memory, Just a Province of History? Memory, in Charge of History? The Uncanniness of History Maurice Halbwachs: Memory Fractured by History Yerushalmi: "Historiography and Its Discontents" Pierre Nora: Strange Places of Memory Chapter 3. Forgetting Reading Guidelines Forgetting and the Effacing of Traces Forgetting and the Persistence of Traces The Forgetting of Recollection: Uses and Abuses Forgetting and Blocked Memory Forgetting and Manipulated Memory Commanded Forgetting: Amnesty Epilogue: Difficult Forgiveness The Forgiveness Equation Depth: The Fault Height: Forgiveness The Odyssey of the Spirit of Forgiveness: The Passage through Institutions Criminal Guilt and the Imprescriptible Political Guilt Moral Guilt The Odyssey of the Spirit of Forgiveness: The Stage of Exchange The Economy of the Gift Gift and Forgiveness The Return to the Self Forgiving and Promising Unbinding the Agent from the Act Looking Back over an Itinerary: Recapitulation Happy Memory Unhappy History? Forgiveness and Forgetting Notes Works Cited Index What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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