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In recent decades, memory has become a dominant topic in philosophy, politics, history, science, literature and the discussions of trauma and the Holocaust. This volume shows how the concept of memory has been used in different historical circumstances and how it has changed throughout the history of philosophy.
Cover; Memory: A History; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Memory in Recollection of Itself; 1. Mnemonics; 2. Memory and Recollection in Autobiography; 3. Collective, Cultural, and Historical Memory; 4. Historical Memory; 5. Memory and Trauma; 6. The Truth of Memory; 7. The Media of Memory; 8. Being as Being in Memory: Inclusion into and Exclusion from Memory; 9. Forgetting/Oblivion; Chapter 1: Memory in Ancient Philosophy; 1. The Origin of the Art of Memory; 2. Speak, Memory; 3. Poetic Catalogue; 4. History and Memory.
5. Memory and Recollection in Plato6. Recollection, Geometry, and Dialectic; 7. Memory and Forgetting; 8. Aristotle on Memory and Recollection; 9. Memory against Recollection; 10. The Stoics: Memory as Treasury; 11. Rhetoric and Memory; 12. Plotinus: Memory as Power; Reflection: Roman Art and the Visual Memory of Greece; Chapter 2: Memory in Medieval Philosophy; 1. Augustine: Memory as an Aspect of Mind; 2. Memory as an Internal Sense in the Arabic Tradition: Avicenna and Averroes; 3. Memory in the Scholastic Era: Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas.
3.1. Epistemological and Anthropological Issues3.2. Ethics and the "Art of Memory"; 4. Synopsis: Medieval Theories of Memory between Augustine and "the Arabs"; Acknowledgment; Reflection: Visual Memory and a Drawing by Villard de Honnecourt; Chapter 3: Memory in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period; 1. Memory in Philosophical Dictionaries; 2. Memory and the Ars Memorativa; 3. Ramus and Melanchthon; 4. René Descartes; 5. Thomas Hobbes; 6. Memory and the Encyclopedia-Johann Heinrich Alsted; 7. John Locke; 8. Conclusions; Reflection: Memory and Forgetfulness in Daoism.
Chapter 4: Forms of Memory in Classical German Philosophy1. Setting the Scene: Kant's Transcendental Critique of Psychology and Its Aftermath; 2. The Theoretical Function of Memory; 2.1. Memory of Consciousness and Memory of Spirit; 2.2. Memory and Idealism; 3. Metaphysical and Poetic Memory: Memory of the Eternal and the Lived Time of Consciousness; 4. Historical and Collective Memory; Reflection: Memory and Storytelling in Proust; Chapter 5: Memory in Continental Philosophy: Metaphor, Concept, Thinking; 1. Metaphor, Concept, Thinking; 2. Nietzsche; 3. Memory in Experimental Psychology.
4. Bergson5. Husserl; 6. Heidegger; 7. Deleuze; 8. Derrida; Reflection: Freud and Memory; Chapter 6: Trauma, Memory, Holocaust; Reflection: Memory: An Adaptive Constructive Process; Acknowledgments; Chapter 7: Memory in Analytic Philosophy; 1. Kinds of Memory; 2. The Concept of Memory; 3. Memory and Knowledge; 4. Memory and Justification; 5. Memory and Personal Identity; Reflection: The Recognitional Structure of Collective Memory; Chapter 8: Memory and Culture; 1. Cultural Memory as a Theory of Culture: Anthropological Foundations; 2. Cultural Memory as a Theory of Memory.
Includes bibliographical references and index.