Memory, History, Forgetting
Memory, History, Forgetting 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…
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Memory, History, Forgetting
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? 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. Is it possible that history "overly remembers" some events at the expense of others?
The underlying question here is how a memory of present can be of something absent, the past. Ricoeur first takes a phenomenological approach to memory and mnemonical devices. The second section addresses recent
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