| Description |
viii, 163 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Theory and history |
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Theory and history.
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| Contents |
Defining 'culture' -- Human subjectivity -- Holistic approach -- Interpretive methodology -- 1. Zeitgeist and Hermeneutics -- Jacob Burckhardt (1818-97) -- Zeitgeist -- Representation, pessimism and the 'Ironic vision' -- Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) -- Understanding (Verstehen) -- Hermeneutics -- 2. Mentalites and the Unconscious -- Definitions of Mentalite -- Collective consciousness -- The constraints of outillage mental -- Subsequent generations of Annates historians -- Critiques -- Psychoanalysis -- Key concepts -- The unconscious -- The interaction between the psychosexual and the psychosocial -- Fantasy and the unconscious -- The limitations of the psychoanalytic approach -- 3. From Agency to Symbols -- Marxism -- Hegemony and the Subaltern -- Cultural Marxism -- Experience and agency -- Critiques -- Technological determinism -- Symbolic anthropology -- Thick description -- Symbolic behaviour and figurative language -- 4. Semiotics and Discourse -- Key transformative influences -- Linguistic structuralism -- Language as dialogic heteroglossia -- The influence of linguistic structuralism and semiotics -- Michel Foucault (1926-84) -- Discourse -- Knowledge/Power -- Deconstruction -- Orientalism -- Gender -- 5. Remembering -- Memory -- Early theorists of remembering -- Critiques -- Subjectivity -- Narrative structure and 'composure' -- Myths and legends -- Cultural scripts and discourse -- Trauma and remembering -- 6. Collective Memory -- The 'memory boom' -- Memory -- Collective memory -- Identity and heritage -- 'Imagined communities' and invented traditions -- 'The language of mourning' -- 'Memory-makers' -- 'Memory consumers' |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
History -- Methodology.
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History -- Philosophy.
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Culture -- History.
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| ISBN |
9780333986745 (hbk.) |
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0333986741 (hbk.) |
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9780333986752 (paperback) |
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033398675X (paperback) |
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