The work of forgetting : or, How can we make the future possible? / Stéphane Symons.

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Acknowledgements; Introduction; A Note on Primo Levi; Notes; Chapter One: What Is Thought? And How Can We Bring It About?; 'Dichtermut' and 'Blödigkeit'; The Concept of Aufgabe; The Aufgabe of Thought; The Turning of Time; Nihilism and Messianism in the 'Theological-Political Fragment'; A Note on Gershom Scholem; From Universal Forgetting to the Unforgettable; A Note on Theodor Adorno; Notes; Chapter Two: What Is the Immemorial? And How Can We Make It Go Away?; Freud Contra Transience; Heidegger's Ground; A Note on Ernst Jünger; Benjamin and Experience

To Have Done with the ImmemorialA Note on Marcel, Albertine and Gilberte; Notes; Chapter Three: What Is the Child? Or How Can We Begin Anew?; From Nietzsche to Arendt; A Note on Virgil and Augustine; Benjamin's Non-Metaphysics of Youth; Das Tagebuch; Notes; By Way of Conclusion; Notes; Abbreviations and Translations; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

This book presents a critical discussion of the turn to memory, a key evolution in the humanities in the last 50 years. It offers an innovative interpretation of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history and his oeuvre at large, taking a thematic approach to the issue of forgetting, based on detailed readings of key philosophers of the 20th century.

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