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222 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780804745222
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01 November 2005
Description
In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a ...
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222 pages • first pub 2000 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780804745222
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 01 November 2005
Description
In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a ...