On the Difficulty of Living Together - Memory, Politics, and History

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-16400-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

Reihe: New Directions in Critical Theory

Manuel Cruz launches a nuanced study of memory and forgetting, defining their forms and uses, political meanings, and social and historical implications. Memory is not an intrinsically positive phenomenon, he argues, but an impressionable and malleable one, used to advance a variety of agendas. Cruz focuses on five memory models: that which is inherently valuable; that which legitimizes the present; that which supports retributive justice; that which is essential to mourning; and that which elicits renunciation or revelation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cruz, Manuel

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jacques, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English Edition1. Of Memory and Time2. The Present Breathes Through History3. For an Urgent Typology of Memory4. We Need to Start Defending Ourselves from the Past5. More About TraumasBy Way of an Epilogue: A Future with Not Much Future (or About How the Perplexity of the Will Is Possible)NotesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Manuel Cruz is professor of contemporary philosophy at the University of Barcelona and author of more than twenty titles, including Taking Charge: On Responsibility and Personal Identity.