Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma by Sarah Clift explores alternatives to the linear temporality of modern historiography through an examination of canonical philosophies of history, memory and identity. Close readings of John Locke and G.W.F. Hegel are set alongside explorations of Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Maurice Blanchot, in order to set the book's exploration of philosophical modernity in the context of contemporary interest in finitude, identity and the temporalities of trauma.
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Introduction 1 Narrative life span, in the wake: Benjamin and Arendt 2 Memory in Theory: The Childhood Memories of John Locke (Persons, Parrots) 3 Mourning Memory: The "End" of Art or, Reading (in) the Spirit of Hegel 4 Speculating on the past, the impact of the present: Hegel and his time(s) 5 In Lieu of a Last Word: Maurice Blanchot and the Future of Memory (today) Endnotes Bibliography
