Memory as Philosophy: The Theory and Practice of Philosophical Recollection

✍ Scribed by Dustin Peone

• Publisher: ibidem-Verlag Jessica Haunschild / Christian Schon GbR
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Dustin Peone argues that memory is the foundation of philosophical thought. He advocates a doctrine of "memory as philosophy" that understands memory not merely in its psychological sense but as the key to metaphysical and moral thinking.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: The Recovery of Memory
PART ONE: THEORY
Section One: The Idea of Memory
I: The Origins of Wisdom
II: What Memory as Philosophy is Not
III: Memory as Philosophy
IV: Forgetting
V: Memory in the Technological World
PART TWO: HISTORY
Section Two: The Memory Tradition
VI: The Speculative Line
VII: The Technical Line
VIII: Theatrum Mundi
Section Three: Memory in Modernity
IX: Montaigne's Monstrous Memory
X: Writing and Memory
XI: Memory versus Modernity
XII: Descartes and His Children
XIII: Hegel's Philosophy of Erinnerung
XIV: Hegel's Later Works
Postface
Bibliography
Index