| The Work of Forgetting: Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible? Contributor(s): Symons, Stephane (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785523236 ISBN-13: 9781785523236 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $145.53 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Philosophy | Aesthetics - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology |
| Dewey: 128.3 |
| LCCN: 2018057201 |
| Series: Philosophical Projections |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.5" (0.92 lbs) 222 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For over fifty years the concept of memory has played a crucial role in a large number of academic and societal debates. The Work of Forgetting: Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible? draws attention to the limits of the academic field of memory studies. It argues that the faculty of memory offers an inadequate response to the challenges of the present. The book sets up a dialogue between the philosophies of forgetting that underlie the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, and the philosophies of memory that inform the work of Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. It builds on the idea that history is inseparable from a type of transience that cannot be counter-acted by the preserving work of memory and develops a new understanding of the phenomenon of forgetting in which the passage of time is asserted in thought and thus made productive. |
Contributor Bio(s): Symons, Stephane: - Stephane Symons is Assistant Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of Walter Benjamin: Presence of Mind, Failure to Comprehend (Brill, 2013) and More than Life: Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin on Art (Northwestern UP, 2017), editor of The Marriage of Aesthetics and Ethics (Brill, 2015) and co-editor of Walter Benjamin and Theology (Fordham UP, 2015). |