Das kulturelle Gedächtnis: Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen by Jan Assmann

Das kulturelle Gedächtnis: Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen

Jan Assmann

344 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced

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This book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. It investigates how cultures remember, arguing that human memory exists and is communicated in two ways, namely inter-human interaction and in external syste...

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