宗教と文化的記憶：十の研究（英訳） Religion and Cultural Memory : Ten Studies (Cultural Memory in the Present)

Assmann, Jan/ Livingstone, Rodney (TRN)

Stanford University Press（2005/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780804745222
• DDC分類 200.9

基本説明

Assmann focuses on cultural memory from the Egyptians, Babylonians, and the Osage Indians down to recent controversies about memorializing the Holocaust in Germany and the role of memory in the current disputes between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East and between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.

Full Description

In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He develops a persuasive view of the life of the past in such surface phenomena as codes, religious rites and festivals, and canonical texts on the one hand, and in the Freudian psychodrama of repressing and resurrecting the past on the other. Whereas the current fad for oral history inevitably focuses on the actual memories of the last century or so, Assmann presents a commanding view of culture extending over five thousand years. He focuses on cultural memory from the Egyptians, Babylonians, and the Osage Indians down to recent controversies about memorializing the Holocaust in Germany and the role of memory in the current disputes between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East and between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.

Contents

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Preface iii @toc2:Introduction: What is 'cultural memory'? 0 1 Invisible religion and cultural memory 2 Monotheism, memory and trauma. Reflections on Freud's book on Moses 000 3 Five stages on the road to the canon. Tradition and written culture in Ancient Israel and early Judaism 000 4 Remembering in order to belong. Writing, memory and identity 000 5 Cultural texts suspended between writing and speech 000 6 Text and ritual. The meaning of the media for the history of religion 000 7 Officium memoriae: ritual as the medium of thought 000 8 A life in quotation. Thomas Mann and the phenomenology of cultural memory 000 9 Egypt in Western memory 000 @toc4:Notes 000