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Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies
Jan Assmann
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Description for Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies
Paperback. Through a commanding view extending over five thousand years, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory, in ten brilliant essays. Translator(s): Livingstone, Rodney. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HRAX; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804745239
SKU
V9780804745239
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About Jan Assmann
Jan Assmann is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of many books, of which the following have been translated into English: Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt (2005), The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs (2002), The Search for God in Ancient Egypt (2001), and Moses the Egyptian: ... Read more
Reviews for Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies
"Religion and Cultural Memory is not only an excellent book for scholars who want to develop a timely understanding of theoretical key concepts like memory, text, myth, and ritual, but is also a stimulation introduction for anyone interested in the genisis of our cultural self-understanding." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques