This engaging volume for the general reader explores how individuals and societies remember, forget and commemorate events of the past. The collection of eight essays takes an interdisciplinary approach to address the relationships between individual experience and collective memory, with leading experts from the arts and sciences. We might expect scientists to be concerned with studying just the mental and physical processes involved in remembering, and humanities scholars to be interested in the products of memory, such as books, statues and music. This collection exposes the falseness of such a dichotomy, illustrating the insights into memory which can be gained by juxtaposing the complementary perspectives of specialists venturing beyond the normal boundaries of their disciplines. The authors come from backgrounds as diverse as psychoanalysis, creative writing, neuroscience, social history and medicine.
| ISBN: | 9780521032186 |
| Publication date: | 14th December 2006 |
| Author: | Darwin College |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 208 pages |
| Series: | Darwin College Lectures |
| Genres: |
Popular psychology Cognition and cognitive psychology |
This engaging volume for the general reader explores how individuals and societies remember, forget and commemorate events of the past. The collection of eight essays takes an interdisciplinary approach to address the relationships between individual experience and collective memory, with leading experts from the arts and sciences. We might expect scientists to be concerned with studying just the mental and physical processes involved in remembering, and humanities scholars to be interested in the products of memory, such as books, statues and music. This collection exposes the falseness of such a dichotomy, illustrating the insights into memory which can be gained by juxtaposing the complementary perspectives of specialists venturing beyond the normal boundaries of their disciplines. The authors come from backgrounds as diverse as psychoanalysis, creative writing, neuroscience, social history and medicine.
Memory features in the following genres: Popular psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology
Memory is available in Paperback, Hardback
Memory was written by Darwin College and published by Cambridge University Press
Memory has 208 pages
Yes it is part of Darwin College Lectures series
£19.80