Committing the Future to Memory : History, Experience, Trauma / Sarah Clift.
Clift, Sarah, author.
2013
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Title Committing the Future to Memory : History, Experience, Trauma / Sarah Clift.
Author Clift, Sarah, author.
ISBN 9780823254231
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823254231
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (264 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823254231 doi
Call Number D13
Dewey Decimal Classification 907.2 23
Summary Whereas historical determinacy conceives the past as a complex and unstable network of causalities, this book asks how history can be related to a more radical future. To pose that question, it does not reject determinacy outright but rather seeks to explore how it works. In examining what it means to be "determined" by history, it also asks what kind of openings there might be in our encounters with history for interruptions, re-readings, and re-writings.Engaging texts spanning multiple genres and several centuries-from John Locke to Maurice Blanchot, from Hegel to Benjamin-Clift looks at experiences of time that exceed the historical narration of experiences said to have occurred in time. She focuses on the co-existence of multiple temporalities and opens up the quintessentially modern notion of historical succession to other possibilities. The alternatives she draws out include the mediations of language and narration, temporal leaps, oscillations and blockages, and the role played by contingency in representation. She argues that such alternatives compel us to reassess the ways we understand history and identity in a traumatic, or indeed in a post-traumatic, age.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Narrative Life Span, in the Wake: Benjamin and Arendt
2. Memory in Theory: The Childhood Memories of John Locke (Persons, Parrots)
3. Mourning Memory: The "End" of Art or, Reading (in) the Spirit of Hegel
4. Speculating on the Past, the Impact of the Present: Hegel and His Time(s)
5. In Lieu of a Last Word: Maurice Blanchot and the Future of Memory (Today)
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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