Relational Remembering: Rethinking the Memory Wars - Couverture rigide

Campbell, Sue

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0742532801 ISBN 13 : 9780742532809

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2003

Synopsis

Tracing the impact of the memory wars on science and culture, Relational Remembering offers a vigorous philosophical challenge to the contemporary skepticism about memory that is their legacy. Campbells work provides a close conceptual analysis of the strategies used to challenge womens memories, particularly those meant to provoke a general social alarm about suggestibility. Sue Campbell argues that we cannot come to an adequate understanding of the nature and value of memory through a distorted view of rememberers.

The harmful stereotypes of womens passivity and instability that have repopulated discussions of abuse have led many theorists to regard the social dimensions of remembering only negatively, as a threat or contaminant to memory integrity. Such models of memory cannot help us grasp the nature of harms linked to oppression, as these models imply that changed group understandings of the past are incompatible with the integrity of personal memory. Campbell uses the false memory debates to defend a feminist reconceptualization of personal memory as relational, social, and subject to politics. Memory is analyzed as a complex of cognitive abilities and social/narrative activities where ones success or failure as a rememberer is both affected by ones social location and has profound ramifications for ones cultural status as a moral agent.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sue Campbell is associate professor of philosophy and women's studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She is the author of Interpreting the Personal (1997) and co-editor of Racism and Philosophy (1999).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0742532801
• ISBN 13: 9780742532809
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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