History As an Art of Memory

by Hutton, Patrick H.

• ISBN13: 9780874516371
• ISBN10: 0874516374
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Journey out of Local Memory
Placing Memory in Contemporary Historiography	p. 1
From Collective Mentalities to Collective Memory in Contemporary Historiography	p. 1
Rediscovering the Art of Memory	p. 10
Memory and Changing Modes of Communication	p. 13
Stages of Memory's Way to History	p. 17
Habit and the Horizons of Tradition	p. 22
The Art of Memory Reconceived: From Renaissance
Rhetoric to Giambattista Vico's Historicism	p. 27
The Art of Memory Revisited	p. 27
Frances Yates and the History of the Art of Memory	p. 30
Giambattista Vico and the Poetics of Memory	p. 32
Vico's New Science as a History of Oral Tradition	p. 36
Decoding the Legends of Roman Law	p. 39
Discovering the "True Homer"	p. 43
The Certain and the True as Modes of Memory	p. 46
The Life Cycle of Collective Memory and the Orality/Literacy Problem	p. 49
William Wordsworth and Sigmund Freud: The Search for the Self Historicized	p. 52
William Wordsworth and the Mnemonics of Autobiography	p. 52
Sigmund Freud and the Mnemonics of the Unconscious Mind	p. 59
From Psychoanalysis to Psychohistory	p. 68
Maurice Halbwachs as Historian of Collective Memory	p. 73
Halbwachs among the Historians	p. 73
How Collective Memory Works chez Halbwachs	p. 77
Halbwachs as Historian of Memory despite Himself	p. 80
Halbwachs's Methods and Sources: Navigators and Pilots	p. 84
Halbwachs's History as Model and as Inspiration for Contemporary Historiography	p. 88
Philippe Aries: Between Tradition and History	p. 91
The Manor House as Memory Palace: An Enchanted Memory of a Lost Heritage	p. 91
The Memory of French History: Aries as Historiographer	p. 95
From Memory to Mentalities: Aries as Historian	p. 100
Michel Foucault: History as Counter-Memory	p. 106
The Foucault Phenomenon and Contemporary French Historiography	p. 106
The History of Discursive Practice and the Repudiation of Tradition	p. 110
Foucault's Impact on Contemporary French Historical Writing	p. 116
The Role of Memory in the Historiography of the French Revolution	p. 124
The French Revolutionary Tradition and the History of the French Revolution	p. 124
The Problem of Tradition Revisited	p. 125
Jules Michelet: Resurrecting the French Revolution	p. 131
Alphonse Aulard: Recollecting the French Revolution	p. 133
Georges Lefebvre: Remodeling the Memory of the French Revolution	p. 135
Francois Furet: Deconstructing Revolutionary Discourse	p. 143
Pierre Nora: The Archaeology of the French National Memory	p. 147
History at the Crossroads of Memory	p. 154
Places Where Thoughts about Memory Converge	p. 154
Hans-Georg Gadamer and the Hermeneutics of Modern Historiography	p. 157
The Divergence of Memory and History in the Postmodern Age	p. 160
History as an Art of Memory in the Postmodern Age	p. 165
Notes	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 205
Index	p. 225
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