Product Description: This volume brings together essays -- three of them previously unpublished -- on the epistemology, ethics, and politics of memory by the late feminist philosopher Sue Campbell. The essays in Part I diagnose contemporary skepticism about personal memory, and develop an account of good remembering that is better suited to contemporary (reconstructive) theories of memory...read more

Product Description: References to the past play a significant role on many levels in both modern and ancient societies. What societies choose to remember and how they do it can be seen in relation to their social, religious, and moral world view. Ancient societies invested heavily in remembrance, and the memory of remarkable individuals and significant events was deliberately perpetuated through both literature and material culture...read more

Product Description: This challenging book, with excellent contributions from international social scientists, focuses on the link between body and memory that specifically refers to the use of digital technologies. Neuroscientists know very well that human beings automatically and unconsciously organize their experience in their bodies into spatial units whose confines are established by changes in location, temporality and the interactive elements that determine it...read more

Product Description: 'Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe' discusses processes of memory construction associated with the realities of war and genocide, totalitarianism, colonialism as well as trans-border dialogues in the overcoming of conflict memories...read more

Product Description: Der Band entwickelt eine neue Perspektive auf das Themenfeld „Kulturelles Gedäauml;chtnis" bzw. „Erinnerungskulturen“. Aufbauend auf einer Systematisierung und Kritik bisheriger Theorieentwüuuml;rfe wird eine Modellierung von Gedächtnis und Erinnerung vorgeschlagen, in deren Mittelpunkt der Zusammenhang zwischen modernen Medienentwicklungen und gesellschaftlichen Erinnerungsprozessen steht...read more

Product Description: What insights can we gain from the social sciences about the role memory plays in creating or re-creating the many conflicts threatening global peace in the twenty-first century? Indeed, can knowledge about the relationship between memory and conflict help resolve intergroup conflicts and heal individual hurts? This book presents a series of essays both theoretical and empirical that approach these questions from a variety of disciplines that will highlight a much-neglected aspect of one of the major problems facing the world today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)