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Work of Forgetting

Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible?
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For over fifty years the concept of memory has played a crucial role in a large number of academic and societal debates. The Work of Forgetting: Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible? draws attention to the limits of the academic field of memory studies. It argues that the faculty of memory offers an inadequate response to the challenges of the present. The book sets up a dialogue between the philosophies of forgetting that underlie the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze, and the philosophies of memory that inform the work of Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt. It builds on the idea that history is inseparable from a type of transience that cannot be counter-acted by the preserving work of memory and develops a new understanding of the phenomenon of forgetting in which the passage of time is asserted in thought and thus made productive.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Work of Forgetting. Or, How Can We Make the Future Possible? Chapter One: What is Thought? And How Can We Bring It About? Chapter Two: What is the Immemorial? And How Can We Make It Go Away? Chapter Three: What is the Child? Or How Can We Begin Anew? By Way of Conclusion: A Note on Shadows Index
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