Memory and Utopia
The Primacy of Inter-Subjectivity
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
146 pages
978-1-84553-026-6 (ISBN)
Description
'Memory and Utopia' looks at the connection between memory and forgetfulness in Europe during the twentieth century. Drawing on oral history and feminist theory and practice, the book highlights how women struggled to be recognized as full subjects. The themes of utopia and desire in the 1968 movements of students, women and workers are explored. 'Memory and Utopia' examines the sense of belonging to Europe that has emerged in the last twenty years. The book analyses European identity as expressed through identities based on gender, age and culture to explore an inclusive and non-hierarchical subjectivity.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sheffield
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
237 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84553-026-6 (9781845530266)
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Person
Luisa Passerini, recipient of the 2002-2004 Research Prize of the Land of Nordrhein-Westfalen, is Director of the research group "Europe: Emotions, Identities, Politics" at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turin and External Professor of History of the Twentieth Century at the European University Institut, Florence. Among her recent publications are Europe in Love, Love in Europe: Imagination and Politics in Britain between the Wars (IB Tauris, London 1999 and New York Univeristy Press, 2000), Memoria e utopia: Il primato dell'intersoggettivita (Bollati-Boringhieri, Torino 2003) and Figures d'Europe: Images and Myths of Europe (Peter Lang-Presses Inter-universitaries Europeennes, Bruxelles 2003).
Content
Introduction: The Primacy of Inter-Subjectivity Part I: The Past, and Historical Research. 1. Memories Between Silence and Oblivion 2. Becoming a Subject in the Time of the Death of the Subject 3. Utopia and Desire Part II: The Present, and the Sense of Belonging 4. From the ironies of identity to the identities of irony 5. The Last Identification: Why Some of Us Would Like to Call Ourselves Europeans and What We Mean by This