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: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism (1998).
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@fmct:Contents @toc4:Preface iii @toc2:Introduction: What is 'cultural memory'? 0 1 Invisible religion and cultural memory 2 Monotheism, memory and trauma. Reflections on Freud's book on Moses 000 3 Five stages on the road to the canon. Tradition and written culture in Ancient Israel and early Judaism 000 4 Remembering in order to belong. Writing, memory and identity 000 5 Cultural texts suspended between writing and speech 000 6 Text and ritual. The meaning of the media for the history of religion 000 7 Officium memoriae: ritual as the medium of thought 000 8 A life in quotation. Thomas Mann and the phenomenology of cultural memory 000 9 Egypt in Western memory 000 @toc4:Notes 000
"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