History And Memory [Hardcover]

Jaques Le Goff is the Director of Studies and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Among his other books are Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages andConstructing the Past: Essays in Historical Methodology.Historiography has its fashions, and this is a clear and persuasive portrayal of a present trend away from the fraternization of history with philosophy, theology, literature and the history of the plastic arts, toward a flirtation with politics and the social sciences...A fine study.Preface
PAST/PRESENT
The distinction between past and present in psychology
The distinction between past and present in light of linguistics
The distinction between past and present in primitive thought
General reflections on the distinction between past and present in historical consciousness
The evolution of the relation between past and present in European thought from ancient Greece to the nineteenth century
The ghost of the past, the history of the present, and the fascination with the future in the twentieth century
ANTIQUE (ANCIENT)/MODERN
An ambiguous Western pairing
In this pair the modern is the main problem
The ambiguity of the antique (ancient): Greco-Roman antiquity and other antiquities
The Modern and its copetitors: Modern and New, Modern and Progress
Antique (ancient)/modern and history: Quarrels between Ancients and Moderns in preindustrial Europe from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries
Antique (ancient)/modern and history: Modernism, modernization, modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Domains that reveal modernism
The historical conditions of the recognition of modernism
The ambiguity of the modern
MEMORY
Ethnic Memory
The Rise of Memory: From Orality to Writing, from Prehistory to Antiquity
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