The Work of Forgetting - Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible?

This book presents a critical discussion of the turn to memory, a key evolution in the humanities in the last 50 years. It offers an innovative interpretation of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and his oeuvre at large, taking a thematic approach to the issue of forgetting, based on detailed readings of key philosophers of the 20th century.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Work of Forgetting. Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible?
Chapter One: What is Thought? And How Can We Bring It About?
Chapter Two: What is the Immemorial? And How Can We Make It Go Away?
Chapter Three: What is the Child? Or How Can We Begin Anew?
By Way of Conclusion: A Note on Shadows
Index

Product details

• Authors: Stephane Symons, Symons Stephane
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2018
• EAN: 9781785523236
• ISBN: 978-1-78552-323-6
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 223 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 395 g
• Illustrations: 2 BW Photos
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Comparative Literature, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Western philosophy from c 1800, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism