By Janet Donohoe

ISBN-10: 0739187163

ISBN-13: 9780739187166

ISBN-10: 0739198637

ISBN-13: 9780739198636

This publication is a phenomenological research of the interrelations of culture, reminiscence, position and the physique. Drawing upon philosophers akin to Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, Janet Donohoe makes use of the belief of a palimpsest to argue that layers of the earlier are carried alongside as traditions, via locations and our bodies, such that we will converse of reminiscence as being written upon position and position as being written upon reminiscence. In discussion with theorists corresponding to Jeff Malpas and Ed Casey, Donohoe makes a speciality of research of monuments and memorials to enquire how such planned locations of collective reminiscence should be ideological, or can open us to the prior and assorted traditions. The insights during this e-book should be of specific price to put theorists and phenomenologists in disciplines equivalent to philosophy, geography, reminiscence reports, public heritage, and environmental studies.

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