Collective Memory and the Historical Past

by Jeffrey Andrew Barash

Book Overview

There is one critical way we honor great tragedies: by never forgetting. Collective remembrance is as old as human society itself, serving as an important source of social cohesion, yet as Jeffrey Andrew Barash shows in this book, it has served novel roles in a modern era otherwise characterized by discontinuity and dislocation. Drawing on recent theoretical explorations of collective memory, he elaborates an important new philosophical basis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022675846X
• ISBN13: 9780226758466
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"