Remembering Places - A Phenomenological Study of the Relationship between Memory and Place

This study provides a unique insight into common experiences and desires to return to important places of our past and to establish places of memory. Drawing upon philosophers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, Janet Donohoe uses the idea of a palimpsest to argue that layers of the past are carried along as traditions through places and bodies such that we can speak of memory as being written upon place and place as being written upon memory.

List of contents

Chapter One: A Phenomenology of Memory and Place
Chapter Two: From Individual to Collective Memory
Chapter Three: Collective Memory, Place, and Mourning
Chapter Four: A Hermeneutics of Monuments
Chapter Five: Conclusions

About the author

Janet Donohoe is Professor of Philosophy at the University of West Georgia. She is the author of Remembering Places (2014).

Product details

• Authors: Janet Donohoe, Donohoe Janet
• Publisher: Durnell
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.04.2016
• EAN: 9780739198636
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9863-6
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 277 g
• Illustrations: 4 BW Illustrations
• Series: Toposophia: Thinking Place/Making Space
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism