On Collective Memory

Description

How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? This volume, the first comprehensive English language translation of Maurice Halbwach’s writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge.

• Author: Maurice Halbwachs
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Published: 1992-09
• Pages: 262
• ISBN-13: 9780226115962