Present Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis

by Richard Terdiman

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 cultural theories have sought to understand it, and have striven to represent its stresses.

Genres: Literary Criticism, History

400 pages, Paperback

Published November 9, 1993

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[Josh Paul · Rating 1 out of 5]

I couldn’t understand anything in this book. maybe it was good. I really wouldn't know. I read it cover-to-cover though.