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

Klappentext Manuel Cruz offers 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. Zusammenfassung Manuel Cruz offers 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.

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• Authors: Manuel Cruz, Cruz Manuel
• Assisted by: Richard Jacques (Translation), Richard L. Jacques (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2016
• EAN: 9780231164009
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16400-9
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: New Directions in Critical Theory; New Directions in Critical The; New Directions in Critical Theory
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Structuralism and Post-structuralism