Collective Memory and Historical Time

• Published in: Práticas da História no. 2; pp. 11 - 37
• Main Author: Jeffrey Andrew Barash
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Nova de Lisboa 01.06.2016
• Subjects: collective memory; historism; human finitude; marcel proust; maurice halbwachs; organic memory

Over the past decades, the phenomenon of collective memory has exercised a growing influence as an intellectual and a public concern. To account for the contemporary preoccupation with this phenomenon, this article centers on the emergence of the discourse of “collective memory” in the years after t...