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Book SynopsisAsks how history can be related to the future and to that end, it examines the issue of how determination works.
Trade Review"This is a thoughtful and absorbing reflection on the subtle modalities of memory-cultural, psychological, political -in the modern period. At a time when we are all experiencing a surfeit of memory, Sarah Clift injects a new rigor and lucidity into the discussion." -- -Rebecca Comay University of Toronto "Through the originality of her questions, her deft combination of close reading and conceptual generalization, the patience and lucidity of her analyses, and the remarkable surefootedness of her argumentation, Sarah Clift has succeeded in reinvigorating the interpretation of important works by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, John Locke, G. W. F. Hegel, and Maurice Blanchot. Her book will be of vital interest to political theorists, philosophers, literary critics, and intellectual historians, and may help to transform the discussion of fundamental issues they confront, most notably the relation between history and memory." -- -Thomas Trezise Princeton University
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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) Endnotes Bibliography
