Afterlife of Events
Perspectives on Mnemohistory
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Word Count
73,500 words, Guess
Page Count
294 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveisbn_9781137470171
- ISBN-101137470178
- ISBN-139781137470171
- Library of Congress Control Number2014038792
- OCLC Control Number891125910
and 3 more
- Better World Books9781137470171
- Better World BooksW8-BLS-312
- Open LibraryOL27976460M
Classifications
- LCCP87-P96HM621-HM656PN
- LCCD16.16 .A47 2015
Description
In the last few decades, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the categories of past, present and future in Western societies. It has enabled the historian's gaze to shift more freely than ever before so that the past no longer appears as something final and irreversible but persists in many ways in the present. The recognition of this new situation has given rise to a novel approach in historical research, called 'mnemohistory' by Jan Assmann. Mnemohistory is interested not so much in the factuality as in the actuality of the past ₆ not in the past for its own sake, but in its later impact and reception. This volume looks at the perspectives of mnemohistory, argues for a redefinition of the notion of 'event', and proposes to conceptualize the link between 'event' and 'mnemohistory' by re-introducing the concept of 'afterlife' (Nachleben), first employed by Aby Warburg in the 1910s.
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