Memory, Humanity, and Meaning
Author: Mihail Neamțu
Publisher: Zeta Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9731997261
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Human Rights and Memory
Author: Daniel Levy
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 0271037385
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Examines the foundations of human rights, how their political and cultural validation in a global context is posing challenges to nation-state sovereignty, and how they become an integral part of international relations and are institutionalized into domestic legal and political practices"--Provided by publisher.
Memory, Humanity, and Meaning
Author: Neamtu, Mihail
Publisher: Zeta Books
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 973199727X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the 23rd of August 2008, Professor Andrei Pleşu has marked his sixtieth birthday. In view of his distinguished service to the public welfare and his manifold contributions to academic life, the editors of this volume have invited a number of Romanian and international scholars to celebrate this event with a Festschrift. Colleagues, friends, and former students of Andrei Pleşu joined together to offer a critical appreciation of his understanding of culture in today’s world. The participants in this volume explore the continuing debates around the place of philosophy, politics, aesthetics, ethics, and religion in shaping the identity of Western civilization. CONTENTS Acknowledgements Bibliography of Andrei Plesu THE PUBLIC SQUARE Mihail Neamtu, The Seasons of Life and the Practice of Wisdom free downloadVladimir Tismaneanu, Winners or Losers? Public Intellectuals and the Struggle for Moral Dignity THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Moshe Idel, On Jerusalem as a Feminine and Sexual Hypostasis: From Late Antiquity Sources to Medieval KabbalahGábor Klaniczay, Angels and DevilsJad Hatem, « Je suis qui j’aime » en mystique. Majnûn Laylâ, Hallâj et la dialectique de la sentence d’identification Natale Spineto, L’histoire des religions en Italie. Modèles et méthodes MAPPING THE SACRED: IDEAS, BODIES, LANGUAGE Zoe Petre, Revenants et sauveurs. Le Ménexène de Platon et le théâtre attique Anca Vasiliu, Les trois amours platoniciens ou la philosophie à hauteur d’hommeMarius Lazurca, Corps commun. Ascèse et politique dans le stoïcisme impérial THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATIONS Mihail Neamtu, The Infinity of God and the Language of Perfection. A Reading of St. Gregory of Nyssa Cristian Gaspar, The Emperor Who Conversed with the Angels: The Making of a “Pagan” Saint in the Fourth Century PHILOSOPHICAL ENCOUNTERS Vlad Alexandrescu, Définition de la pensée et vie universelle chez le Prince Démètre Cantemir Diana Stanciu, Shibboleth: Liberty of Conscience and Toleration in Seventeenth-Century EnglandAna-Stanca Tabarasi, „…Zuchtmeister des unmittelbaren, gedankenlosen Lebens“. Ironie, Humor und ihr Verhältnis zum Religiösen in Kierkegaards entweder-oder Leo Stan, From imitatio Christi to imitatio angeli, and Back. Reading Kierkegaard with Andrei PlesuIoan Pânzaru, Un mythe compatibiliste MIRRORING FAITH AND REASON Russell R. Reno, The Virtue of Docility Virgil Ciomos, Religion, intervalle, philosophie analytiqueStefan Vianu, L’à-Dieu et le sens de l’être Rajesh Sampath, Reading Heidegger on Time and History Cristian Ciocan, Le phénomène de la vie entre la réflexion philosophique et l’expérience religieuse HISTORY OF AESTHETIC FORMS Dragos Mîrsanu, The Aesthetic “Shadow” of Gothic Arianism: Archaeology, Architecture and Art in the Age of HeresiesAnca Oroveanu, Paint Matter and Trace. Reflections on Horia Bernea’s ArtAugustin Ioan „Retrofuturismul“. Concept pentru o arhitectura viitoare HISTORY, LOCAL AND UNIVERSAL István Rév, Ethics and the Limits of History Writing Petre Gura, Des guerres idéologiques, des identités fragiles et de quelques autres dilemmes de la culture roumaine Florin Turcanu, Un moment roumain à Paris — 1949Bogdan Iancu, Dreptul public între tragedie si melodrama
Contextualizing Human Memory
Author: Charles Stone
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2015-09-16
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 131780743X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis edited collection provides an inter- and intra-disciplinary discussion of the critical role context plays in how and when individuals and groups remember the past. International contributors integrate key research from a range of disciplines, including social and cognitive psychology, discursive psychology, philosophy/philosophical psychology and cognitive linguistics, to increase awareness of the central role that cultural, social and technological contexts play in determining individual and collective recollections at multiple, yet interconnected, levels of human experience. Divided into three parts, cognitive and psychological perspectives, social and cultural perspectives, and cognitive linguistics and philosophical perspectives, Stone and Bietti present a breadth of research on memory in context. Topics covered include: the construction of self-identity in memory flashbulb memories scaffolding memory the cultural psychology of remembering social aspects of memory the mnemonic consequences of silence emotion and memory eyewitness identification multimodal communication and collective remembering. Contextualizing Human Memory allows researchers to understand the variety of work undertaken in related fields, and to appreciate the importance of context in understanding when, how and what is remembered at any given recollection. The book will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of cognitive and social psychology, as well as those in related disciplines interested in learning more about the advancing field of memory studies.
Evidence and Meaning
Author: Jörn Rüsen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2017-05-01
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 1785335391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs one of the premier historical thinkers of his generation, Jörn Rüsen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of history as it is practiced today. In Evidence and Meaning, Rüsen surveys the seismic changes that have shaped the historical profession over the last half-century, while offering a clear, economical account of his theory of history. To traditional historiography Rüsen brings theoretical insights from philosophy, narrative theory, cultural studies, and the social sciences, developing an intricate but robust model of “historical thinking” as both a cognitive discipline and a cultural practice—one that is susceptible neither to naïve empiricism nor radical relativism.
The Ethics of Memory
Author: Avishai Margalit
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002-11-19
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780674009417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMargalit’s work offers a philosophy for our time, when, in the wake of overwhelming atrocities, memory can seem more crippling than liberating, a force more for revenge than for reconciliation. The book draws on millennia of Western philosophy and religion to provide healing ideas for all who care about the nature of our relations to others.
Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Author: Laszlo Muntean
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-08
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1315472155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMemory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mémoire but are integral to memory. Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture. The book’s underlying premise is twofold: on the one hand, memory is performed, mediated, and stored through the material world that surrounds us; on the other hand, inanimate objects and things also have agency on their own, which affects practices of memory, as well as forgetting. Chapters 1, 4, and 5 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.
Memory, History, Forgetting
Author: Paul Ricoeur
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 662
ISBN-13: 0226713466
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy 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, like its title, is divided into three major sections. Ricoeur first takes a phenomenological approach to memory and mnemonical devices. The underlying question here is how a memory of present can be of something absent, the past. The second section addresses recent work by historians by reopening the question of the nature and truth of historical knowledge. Ricoeur explores whether historians, who can write a history of memory, can truly break with all dependence on memory, including memories that resist representation. The third and final section is a profound meditation on the necessity of forgetting as a condition for the possibility of remembering, and whether there can be something like happy forgetting in parallel to happy memory. Throughout the book there are careful and close readings of the texts of Aristotle and Plato, of Descartes and Kant, and of Halbwachs and Pierre Nora. A momentous achievement in the career of one of the most significant philosophers of our age, 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. “His success in revealing the internal relations between recalling and forgetting, and how this dynamic becomes problematic in light of events once present but now past, will inspire academic dialogue and response but also holds great appeal to educated general readers in search of both method for and insight from considering the ethical ramifications of modern events. . . . It is indeed a master work, not only in Ricoeur’s own vita but also in contemporary European philosophy.”—Library Journal “Ricoeur writes the best kind of philosophy—critical, economical, and clear.”— New York Times Book Review
Human Rights and Memory
Author: Daniel Levy
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-11-04
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 027107602X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMemories of historical events like the Holocaust have played a key role in the internationalization of human rights. Their importance lies in their ability to bridge the universal and the particular—the universality of human values and the particularity of memories rooted in local human experiences. In Human Rights and Memory, Levy and Sznaider trace the growth of human rights discourse since World War II and interpret its deployment of memories as a new form of cosmopolitanism, exemplifying a dynamic through which global concerns become part of local experiences, and vice versa.
States of Memory
Author: Jeffrey K. Olick
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2003-07-21
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 082238468X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStates of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory—its place in social relations and the forms it takes—varies over time. Integrating theories of memory and nationalism with case studies, these essays stake a vital middle ground between particular and universal approaches to social memory studies. The contributors—including historians and social scientists—describe societies’ struggles to produce and then use ideas of what a “normal” past should look like. They examine claims about the genuineness of revolution (in fascist Italy and communist Russia), of inclusiveness (in the United States and Australia), of innocence (in Germany), and of inevitability (in Israel). Essayists explore the reputation of Confucius among Maoist leaders during China’s Cultural Revolution; commemorations of Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States Congress; the “end” of the postwar era in Japan; and how national calendars—in signifying what to remember, celebrate, and mourn—structure national identification. Above all, these essays reveal that memory is never unitary, no matter how hard various powers strive to make it so. States of Memory will appeal to those scholars-in sociology, history, political science, cultural studies, anthropology, and art history-who are interested in collective memory, commemoration, nationalism, and state formation. Contributors. Paloma Aguilar, Frederick C. Corney, Carol Gluck, Matt K. Matsuda, Jeffrey K. Olick, Francesca Polletta, Uri Ram, Barry Schwartz, Lyn Spillman, Charles Tilly, Simonetta Falasca Zamponi, Eviatar Zerubavel, Tong Zhang
