Halbwachs and the Social Properties of Memory

In 1924, the French social scientist Maurice Halbwachs publishedLes cadres sociaux de la mémoire(On Collective Memory).¹ Its publication was immediately seen by his contemporaries as a major event, its importance acknowledged even by those who did not fully share his theoretical views. Prophetically...

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Hauptverfasser: Caygill, Howard, Carruthers, Mary, Coombes, Annie, Freeman, Mark, Feuchtwang, Stephan, Goodman, Steve, Barnier, Amanda, Callard, Felicity
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Zusammenfassung:In 1924, the French social scientist Maurice Halbwachs publishedLes cadres sociaux de la mémoire(On Collective Memory).¹ Its publication was immediately seen by his contemporaries as a major event, its importance acknowledged even by those who did not fully share his theoretical views. Prophetically, the historian Marc Bloch saw the analyses presented by Halbwachs in this book as a major contribution to the developing discipline of social science. Halbwachs, in delineating the social and collective dimensions of individual memory, tracing their dialectical links in the process of elaboration and transformation, in addition to analyzing the mechanisms and modes of