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...
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 century or so, Assmann presents a commanding view of culture extending over five thousand years. He focuses on cultural memory from the Egyptians, Babylonians, and the Osage Indians down to recent controversies about memorializing the Holocaust in Germany and the role of memory in the current disputes between Israelis and Palestinians in the Middle East and between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.
0 有用 白道冥窮 2015-12-01 12:27:58
哈布瓦赫、尼采、弗洛伊德、列维-施特劳斯的大杂烩，再加上一点人类学和神话学的材料（都多少年了，还在用葛兰言谈中国！）。不过从实用角度来说，也许对比较文学来说是个生产力比较稳定的框架吧。。。
0 有用 飞飞在田野 2020-02-16 14:52:41
终于读完了。内容丰富，只理解了其中的3/5。很有启发。
0 有用 Shiyo 2024-04-30 09:16:53 浙江
泛读补标
0 有用 Shiyo 2024-04-30 09:16:53 浙江
泛读补标
0 有用 飞飞在田野 2020-02-16 14:52:41
终于读完了。内容丰富，只理解了其中的3/5。很有启发。
0 有用 白道冥窮 2015-12-01 12:27:58
哈布瓦赫、尼采、弗洛伊德、列维-施特劳斯的大杂烩，再加上一点人类学和神话学的材料（都多少年了，还在用葛兰言谈中国！）。不过从实用角度来说，也许对比较文学来说是个生产力比较稳定的框架吧。。。