History and Memory

A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism

By: Jacques Le Goff, Steven Rendall (Translator), Elizabeth Claman (Translator)

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Paperback | 30 August 1996 | Edition Number 1

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In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history,History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.

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Historiography has its fashions, and this is a clear and persuasive portrayal of a present trend away from the fraternization of history with philosophy, theology, literature and the history of the plastic arts, toward a flirtation with politics and the social sciences...A fine study. The Historian

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Preface
Past/Present	p. 1
The distinction between past and present in psychology	p. 3
The distinction between past and present in light of linguistics	p. 4
The distinction between past and present in primitive thought	p. 7
General reflections on the distinction between past and present in historical consciousness	p. 9
The evolution of the relation between past and present in European thought from ancient Greece to the nineteenth century	p. 11
The ghost of the past, the history of the present, and the fascination with the future in the twentieth century	p. 15
Antique (Ancient)/Modern	p. 21
An ambiguous Western pairing	p. 21
In this pair the modern is the main problem	p. 22
The ambiguity of the antique (ancient): Greco-Roman antiquity and other antiquities	p. 24
The Modern and its competitors: Modern and New, Modern and Progress	p. 26
Antique (ancient)/modern and history: Quarrels between Ancients and Moderns in preindustrial Europe from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries	p. 27
Antique (ancient)/modern and history: Modernism, modernization, modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries	p. 32
Domains that reveal modernism	p. 42
The historical conditions of the recognition of modernism	p. 47
The ambiguity of the modern	p. 49
Memory	p. 51
Ethnic Memory	p. 55
The Rise of Memory: From Orality to Writing, from Prehistory to Antiquity	p. 58
Memory in the Middle Ages: Western Europe	p. 68
The Progress of Written and Figured Memory from the Renaissance to the Present	p. 81
Contemporary Revolutions in Memory	p. 90
Conclusion: The Stake of Memory	p. 97
History	p. 101
Paradoxes and Ambiguities of History	p. 106
Is history a science of the past, or is it true that "there is only contemporary history"?	p. 106
Knowledge and power: Objectivity and the manipulation of the past	p. 111
The singular and the universal: Generalizations and regularities in history	p. 115
The Historical Mentality: Men and the Past	p. 127
Philosophies of History	p. 152
History as a Science: The Historian's Craft	p. 179
History Today	p. 199
Endnotes	p. 217
Bibliography	p. 225
About the Author	p. 241
Index	p. 243
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