PART I: ON MEMORY AND RECOLLECTION
Chapter 1: Memory and Imagination
˜ Plato: The Present Representation of an Absent Thing
˜ Aristotle: “Memory Is of the Past”
• A Phenomenological Sketch of Memory
Chapter 2: The Exercise of Memory: Uses and Abuses
• 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
• 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
Chapter 2: Explanation/Understanding
• Promoting the History of Mentalities
• Some Advocates of Rigor: Michel Foucault, Michel de Certeau, Norbert Elias
• 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
• Representation and Narration
• The Historian’s Representation and the Prestige of the Image
PART III: THE HISTORICAL CONDITION
Prelude: The Burden of History and the Nonhistorical
Chapter 1: The Critical Philosophy of History
• “Die Geschichte Selber,” “History Itself”
˜ 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?
˜ Maurice Halbwachs: Memory Fractured by History
˜ Yerushalmi: “Historiography and Its Discontents”
˜ Pierre Nora: Strange Places of Memory
• 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 Odyssey of the Spirit of Forgiveness: The Passage through Institutions
˜ Criminal Guilt and the Imprescriptible
• The Odyssey of the Spirit of Forgiveness: The Stage of Exchange
˜ Unbinding the Agent from the Act