Author | : Bootheina Majoul |
File Size | : 41,7 Mb |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 06 October 2020 |
ISBN | : 9781527560420 |
Pages | : 278 pages |
On History and Memory in Arab Literature and Western Poetics by Bootheina Majoul Book PDF Summary
Texts act like receptacles for an ever-present remembered past, or what the French philosopher Paul Ricœur calls “the present representation of an absent thing”. They might embody an efficient remedy to forgetting but could also become a vivid testimony for exorcised traumas. This volume focuses on Ricœur’s phenomenology of memory, epistemology of history, and hermeneutics of forgetting. A special emphasis is laid on the dissension between individual and collective institutional memory.