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On the 23rd of August 2008, Professor Andrei Pleşu has marked his sixtieth birthday. In view of his distinguished service to the public welfare and his manifold contributions to academic life, the editors of this volume have invited a number of Romanian and international scholars to celebrate this event with a Festschrift. Colleagues, friends, and former students of Andrei Pleşu joined together to offer a critical appreciation of his understanding of culture in today’s world. The participants in this volume explore the continuing debates around the place of philosophy, politics, aesthetics, ethics, and religion in shaping the identity of Western civilization. CONTENTS Acknowledgements Bibliography of Andrei Plesu THE PUBLIC SQUARE Mihail Neamtu, The Seasons of Life and the Practice of Wisdom free downloadVladimir Tismaneanu, Winners or Losers? Public Intellectuals and the Struggle for Moral Dignity THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS Moshe Idel, On Jerusalem as a Feminine and Sexual Hypostasis: From Late Antiquity Sources to Medieval KabbalahGábor Klaniczay, Angels and DevilsJad Hatem, « Je suis qui j’aime » en mystique. Majnûn Laylâ, Hallâj et la dialectique de la sentence d’identification Natale Spineto, L’histoire des religions en Italie. Modèles et méthodes MAPPING THE SACRED: IDEAS, BODIES, LANGUAGE Zoe Petre, Revenants et sauveurs. Le Ménexène de Platon et le théâtre attique Anca Vasiliu, Les trois amours platoniciens ou la philosophie à hauteur d’hommeMarius Lazurca, Corps commun. Ascèse et politique dans le stoïcisme impérial THEOLOGICAL CONVERSATIONS Mihail Neamtu, The Infinity of God and the Language of Perfection. A Reading of St. Gregory of Nyssa Cristian Gaspar, The Emperor Who Conversed with the Angels: The Making of a “Pagan” Saint in the Fourth Century PHILOSOPHICAL ENCOUNTERS Vlad Alexandrescu, Définition de la pensée et vie universelle chez le Prince Démètre Cantemir Diana Stanciu, Shibboleth: Liberty of Conscience and Toleration in Seventeenth-Century EnglandAna-Stanca Tabarasi, „…Zuchtmeister des unmittelbaren, gedankenlosen Lebens“. Ironie, Humor und ihr Verhältnis zum Religiösen in Kierkegaards entweder-oder Leo Stan, From imitatio Christi to imitatio angeli, and Back. Reading Kierkegaard with Andrei PlesuIoan Pânzaru, Un mythe compatibiliste MIRRORING FAITH AND REASON Russell R. Reno, The Virtue of Docility Virgil Ciomos, Religion, intervalle, philosophie analytiqueStefan Vianu, L’à-Dieu et le sens de l’être Rajesh Sampath, Reading Heidegger on Time and History Cristian Ciocan, Le phénomène de la vie entre la réflexion philosophique et l’expérience religieuse HISTORY OF AESTHETIC FORMS Dragos Mîrsanu, The Aesthetic “Shadow” of Gothic Arianism: Archaeology, Architecture and Art in the Age of HeresiesAnca Oroveanu, Paint Matter and Trace. Reflections on Horia Bernea’s ArtAugustin Ioan „Retrofuturismul“. Concept pentru o arhitectura viitoare HISTORY, LOCAL AND UNIVERSAL István Rév, Ethics and the Limits of History Writing Petre Gura, Des guerres idéologiques, des identités fragiles et de quelques autres dilemmes de la culture roumaine Florin Turcanu, Un moment roumain à Paris — 1949Bogdan Iancu, Dreptul public între tragedie si melodrama
This edited collection provides an inter- and intra-disciplinary discussion of the critical role context plays in how and when individuals and groups remember the past. International contributors integrate key research from a range of disciplines, including social and cognitive psychology, discursive psychology, philosophy/philosophical psychology and cognitive linguistics, to increase awareness of the central role that cultural, social and technological contexts play in determining individual and collective recollections at multiple, yet interconnected, levels of human experience. Divided into three parts, cognitive and psychological perspectives, social and cultural perspectives, and cognitive linguistics and philosophical perspectives, Stone and Bietti present a breadth of research on memory in context. Topics covered include: the construction of self-identity in memory flashbulb memories scaffolding memory the cultural psychology of remembering social aspects of memory the mnemonic consequences of silence emotion and memory eyewitness identification multimodal communication and collective remembering. Contextualizing Human Memory allows researchers to understand the variety of work undertaken in related fields, and to appreciate the importance of context in understanding when, how and what is remembered at any given recollection. The book will appeal to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of cognitive and social psychology, as well as those in related disciplines interested in learning more about the advancing field of memory studies.
As one of the premier historical thinkers of his generation, Jörn Rüsen has made enormous contributions to the methods and theoretical framework of history as it is practiced today. In Evidence and Meaning, Rüsen surveys the seismic changes that have shaped the historical profession over the last half-century, while offering a clear, economical account of his theory of history. To traditional historiography Rüsen brings theoretical insights from philosophy, narrative theory, cultural studies, and the social sciences, developing an intricate but robust model of “historical thinking” as both a cognitive discipline and a cultural practice—one that is susceptible neither to naïve empiricism nor radical relativism.
Margalit’s work offers a philosophy for our time, when, in the wake of overwhelming atrocities, memory can seem more crippling than liberating, a force more for revenge than for reconciliation. The book draws on millennia of Western philosophy and religion to provide healing ideas for all who care about the nature of our relations to others.
Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mémoire but are integral to memory. Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture. The book’s underlying premise is twofold: on the one hand, memory is performed, mediated, and stored through the material world that surrounds us; on the other hand, inanimate objects and things also have agency on their own, which affects practices of memory, as well as forgetting. Chapters 1, 4, and 5 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.
Memories of historical events like the Holocaust have played a key role in the internationalization of human rights. Their importance lies in their ability to bridge the universal and the particular—the universality of human values and the particularity of memories rooted in local human experiences. In Human Rights and Memory, Levy and Sznaider trace the growth of human rights discourse since World War II and interpret its deployment of memories as a new form of cosmopolitanism, exemplifying a dynamic through which global concerns become part of local experiences, and vice versa.
States of Memory illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory—its place in social relations and the forms it takes—varies over time. Integrating theories of memory and nationalism with case studies, these essays stake a vital middle ground between particular and universal approaches to social memory studies. The contributors—including historians and social scientists—describe societies’ struggles to produce and then use ideas of what a “normal” past should look like. They examine claims about the genuineness of revolution (in fascist Italy and communist Russia), of inclusiveness (in the United States and Australia), of innocence (in Germany), and of inevitability (in Israel). Essayists explore the reputation of Confucius among Maoist leaders during China’s Cultural Revolution; commemorations of Martin Luther King Jr. in the United States Congress; the “end” of the postwar era in Japan; and how national calendars—in signifying what to remember, celebrate, and mourn—structure national identification. Above all, these essays reveal that memory is never unitary, no matter how hard various powers strive to make it so. States of Memory will appeal to those scholars-in sociology, history, political science, cultural studies, anthropology, and art history-who are interested in collective memory, commemoration, nationalism, and state formation. Contributors. Paloma Aguilar, Frederick C. Corney, Carol Gluck, Matt K. Matsuda, Jeffrey K. Olick, Francesca Polletta, Uri Ram, Barry Schwartz, Lyn Spillman, Charles Tilly, Simonetta Falasca Zamponi, Eviatar Zerubavel, Tong Zhang
This book provides an analysis of the forms and functions of Holocaust memorialisation in human rights museums by asking about the impact of global memory politics on how we imagine the present and the future. It compares three human rights museums and their respective emplotment of the Holocaust and seeks to illuminate how, in this specific setting, memory politics simultaneously function as future politics because they delineate a normative ideal of the citizen-subject, its set of values and aspirations for the future: that of the historically aware human rights advocate. More than an ethical practice, engaging with the Holocaust is used as a means of asserting one’s standing on "the right side of history"; the memorialisation of the Holocaust has thus become a means of governmentality, a way of governing contemporary citizen-subjects. The linking of public memory of the Holocaust with the human rights project is often presented as highly beneficial for all members of what is often called the "global community". Yet this book argues that this specific constellation of memory also has the ability to function as an exercise of power, and thus runs the risk of reinforcing structural oppression. With its novel theoretical approach this book not only contributes to Memory Studies but also connects Holocaust memory to Studies of Global Governmentality and the debate on decolonising memory politics.