Memory, History, Forgetting by Paul Ricoeur; -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Copyright Title Page Dedication Contents Preface 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

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