Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis by Richard Terdiman

Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis

Richard Terdiman

389 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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This book is about memory--about how the past persists into the present, and about how this persistence has been understood over the past two centuries. Since the French Revolution, memory has been the source of an intense disquiet. Fundamental cu...

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