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Memory, trauma, and history : essays on living with the past /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Roth, Michael S., 1957-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
Subjects:	History > Philosophy. Memory (Philosophy) Psychoanalysis > History. Psychic trauma > Social aspects. Photography > Psychological aspects.

Table of Contents:

Remembering forgetting : Maladies de la Mémoire in nineteenth-century France
Dying of the past : medical studies of nostalgia in nineteenth-century France
Hysterical remembering
Trauma, representation, and historical consciousness
Trauma : a dystopia of the spirit
Falling into history : Freud's case of 'Frau Emmy von N.'
Why Freud haunts us
Why Warburg now?
Classic postmodernism : Keith Jenkins
Ebb tide : Frank Ankersmit
The art of losing oneself : Anne Carson and decreation
Inquiry as hope : Richard Rorty
Photographic ambivalence
Why photography matters to the theory of history
Ordinary film : Péter Forgács's The Maelstrom
Graves of the insane, decorated
On a certain blindness in teaching
Beyond critical thinking
Good and risky : on the promise of a liberal education.