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? 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 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."--Jacket
1 online resource (xvii, 642 pages) : illustrations
9780226713465, 9781282504325, 9786612504327, 0226713466, 1282504320, 6612504323
662453051
On Memory and Recollection
Memory and Imagination
The Exercise of Memory: Uses and Abuses
Personal Memory, Collective Memory
History, Epistemology
History: Remedy or Poison?
The Documentary Phase: Archived Memory
Explanation/Understanding
The Historian's Representation
The Historical Condition
The Burden of History and the Nonhistorical
The Critical Philosophy of History
History and Time
Forgetting
Difficult Forgiveness
The Forgiveness Equation
The Odyssey of the Spirit of Forgiveness: The Passage through Institutions
The Odyssey of the Spirit of Forgiveness: The Stage of Exchange
The Return to the Self
Looking Back over an Itinerary: Recapitulation
Translated from the French