Modernization And The Crisis Of Memory
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Present Past
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Author : Richard Terdiman
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1993
Present Past written by Richard Terdiman and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
This book is about memory--about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses.
Memory And Recovery In Times Of Crisis
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Author : Fiona Larkan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-11-09
Memory And Recovery In Times Of Crisis written by Fiona Larkan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-09 with Social Science categories.
This book presents a social scientific reading of the challenges of memory and recovery in times of crisis. Drawing on different interpretations of what constitutes ‘crisis’, this collection uses lenses of economics, identity and commemoration, to question how memory and recovery is being constituted through larger discourses of political claims of moving forward, healing and identity. Memory and Recovery in Times of Crisis examines how memory is dis- or re-interred through social processes and further, how recovered memories are challenged or legitimized. It also presents a set of questions that will stimulate further reflections on what kind of role understandings of memory of crisis can play in recovery. Given the world we find ourselves living in in 2017 – a world subject to multiple, intersecting crises – how we understand the dynamics of memory and recovery is a pressing issue indeed. This book will appeal to both scholars and students of anthropology and sociology.
Modernization And The Crisis Of Memory
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Author : Philipp Wolf
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-22
Modernization And The Crisis Of Memory written by Philipp Wolf and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contemporary studies of memory focus either on the psychology of remembering, on its archives and media, or on the traditional ars memoriae. The general cultural framework with its social and material factors is largely neglected, despite the obvious impact on both collective and individual mnemonic mentality. But, as in the first half of the seventeenth century or the later twentieth century, the literary and political invocation of religious, collective or national memory occurs most of all in times of historical rupture, and attendant changes of a radical technological and cultural nature. Appeals to the power of memory are not only indicative of the anxiety about the loss of its binding or absolving character. They are already symptomatic of a deep crisis of cultural memory in itself, resulting from an erosion of firm spatial, temporal and historical references along with an increasing tendency towards reflexivity, which calls the apparently self-evident facts of past and present into question. The continuity of remembering, however, as this study argues, presupposes the permanence and recurrence of social and material relations, of representative or symbolic persons, objects and events, in which it can inscribe itself. But owing to the shift in historical consciousness from (typological) past to progressive future and novelty and under the impress of industrial production and modern media (mobility and communications), the Western subject has to cope constantly with new empirical situations, symbolic values and historical or current information whose origin and evolution – indeed, the very memory of them – remain alien to personal identity and memory. The promise of redemption and salvation, still inherent in seventeenth-century collective memory, loses credibility. The study includes a wide range of authors from Donne to Pope, Tennyson to George Eliot and Walter Pater, W.B. Yeats to Don DeLillo and covers the whole period from early modern England to postmodernism. It can thus also be read as a brief history of Western memory and its continuing crises.
Twilight Memories
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Author : Andreas Huyssen
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1995
Twilight Memories written by Andreas Huyssen and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with German literature categories.
As we are approaching our fin de siecle, issues of time and memory haunt contemporary culture. Museums and memorials are being constructed rapidly, as if there were no tomorrow. Contemporary art and literature focuses on memory and the past, rather than claiming radical breakthroughs into some unknown future. With the recent resurgence of nationalism and issues of national identity, the political future, too, seems to fold itself back into the past rather than offering a bold vision of the 21st century. The great paradox of our fin de siecle culture is that novelity is even more associated with memory and the past rather than future expectation. But if the obsession with memory is one salient symptom in this age of a modernity grown old, then cultural and political amnesia is undoubtedly its counterpoint. Rather than blaming amnesia on television or the school, Twilight Memories argues that the danger of amnesia is inherent in the information revolution. Our obsessions withcultural memory can be read as re-representing a powerful reaction against the electronic archive and they mark a shift in the way we live structures of temporality. In this book, the media are the hidden veil through which the author looks at the problem of cultural memory and an emerging new sensibility of temporality in literature, art, politics, media theory and the museum.
Is Time Out Of Joint
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Author : Aleida Assmann
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2020-02-15
Is Time Out Of Joint written by Aleida Assmann and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future—and their relationship to the present—been reordered? The past, it seems, has returned with a vengeance: as aggressive nostalgia, as traumatic memory, or as atavistic origin narratives rooted in nation, race, or tribe. The future, meanwhile, has lost its utopian glamor, with the belief in progress and hope for a better future eroded by fears of ecological collapse. In this provocative book, Aleida Assmann argues that the apparently solid moorings of our temporal orientation have collapsed within the span of a generation. To understand this profound cultural crisis, she reconstructs the rise and fall of what she calls "time regime of modernity" that underpins notions of modernization and progress, a shared understanding that is now under threat. Is Time Out of Joint? assesses the deep change in the temporality of modern Western culture as it relates to our historical experience, historical theory, and our life-world of shared experience, explaining what we have both gained and lost during this profound transformation.
Cultural Amnesia
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Author : Stephen Bertman
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2000-02-28
Cultural Amnesia written by Stephen Bertman and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-28 with Education categories.
"Applying the metaphor of Alzheimer's disease to our national state of mind, Bertman offers a chilling prognosis for our country's future unless radical steps for recovery are taken. ... [He] looks beyond the classroom to the larger social forces that conspire to alienate Americans from their past: a materialistic creed that celebrates transience and disposability, and an electronic faith that worships the present to the exclusion of all other dimensions of time."--Jacket.
Perspectives On Modernization
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Author : Edward B. Harvey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Perspectives On Modernization written by Edward B. Harvey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with SOCIAL SCIENCE categories.
"Cover" -- "Contents" -- "CONTRIBUTORS" -- "PREFACE" -- "INTRODUCTION" -- "The concept of modernization: an unfinished chapter in sociological theory" -- "Typical normative conflicts in stages of cultural change" -- "On political modernity: stratification and the generation of societal power" -- "The modernization of political conflict in France" -- "Rural migration and patterns of urban growth" -- "Sexual change and illegitimacy: the European experience" -- "Political centralism and economic consequences: an analysis of early Japanese modernization" -- "Crisis and change in a West African utopia
How Modernity Forgets
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Author : Paul Connerton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-30
How Modernity Forgets written by Paul Connerton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-30 with Social Science categories.
Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how modern society affects our ability to remember things. It takes ideas from Francis Yates classic work, The Art of Memory, which viewed memory as being dependent on stability, and argues that today's world is full of change, making 'forgetting' characteristic of contemporary society. We live our lives at great speed; cities have become so enormous that they are unmemorable; consumerism has become disconnected from the labour process; urban architecture has a short life-span; and social relationships are less clearly defined - all of which has eroded the foundations on which we build and share our memories. Providing a profound insight into the effects of modern society, this book is a must-read for anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and philosophers, as well as anyone interested in social theory and the contemporary western world.
Greece From Junta To Crisis
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Author : Dimitris Tziovas
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-06-17
Greece From Junta To Crisis written by Dimitris Tziovas and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with History categories.
Winner of the 2021 European Society of Modern Greek Studies Book Prize Shortlisted for the 2022 Runciman Award The recent economic crisis in Greece has triggered national self-reflection and prompted a re-examination of the political and cultural developments in the country since 1974. While many other books have investigated the politics and economics of this transition, this study turns its attention to the cultural aspects of post-dictatorship Greece. By problematizing the notion of modernization, it analyzes socio-cultural trends in the years between the fall of the junta and the economic crisis, highlighting the growing diversity and cultural ambivalence of Greek society. With its focus on issues such as identity, antiquity, religion, language, literature, media, cinema, youth, gender and sexuality, this study is one of the first to examine cultural trends in Greece over the last fifty years. Aiming for a more nuanced understanding of recent history, the study offers a fresh perspective on current problems.
Perspectives On Modernization Essays In Memory Of Ian Weinberg
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Author : Ian Weinberg
language : en
Publisher: Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1972
Perspectives On Modernization Essays In Memory Of Ian Weinberg written by Ian Weinberg and has been published by Toronto: University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
Perspectives on Modernization is published in memory of Ian Weinberg, a sociologist of brilliant promise who died at age thirty. It consists of essays by his colleagues, students, and teachers which reflect upon and carry further Ian Weinberg's majory scholarly concerns -- the processes of industrialization and modernization of societies.