Committing the Future to Memory History, Experience, Trauma |
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| Author:
| Clift, Sarah |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8232-5421-7 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2013 |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.00 |
Book Description:
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Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma by Sarah Clift explores alternatives to the linear temporality of modern historiography through an examination of canonical philosophies of history, memory and identity. Close readings of John Locke and G.W.F. Hegel are set alongside explorations of Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Maurice Blanchot, in order to set the book's exploration of philosophical modernity in the context of contemporary interest in finitude,...
More DescriptionCommitting the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma by Sarah Clift explores alternatives to the linear temporality of modern historiography through an examination of canonical philosophies of history, memory and identity. Close readings of John Locke and G.W.F. Hegel are set alongside explorations of Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Maurice Blanchot, in order to set the book's exploration of philosophical modernity in the context of contemporary interest in finitude, identity and the temporalities of trauma.