Memory, History, Forgetting

Description

Firstly, Paul Ricoeur takes a phenomenological approach to memory. He then addresses recent work by historians by reopening the question of the nature and truth of historical knowledge. Finally, he describes the necessity of forgetting as a condition for the possibility of remembering.

• Author: Paul Ricœur
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Published: 2004-08-16
• Pages: 661
• ISBN-13: 9780226713410