| Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma Subjects: Historiography -- Philosophy; Civilization Modern -- Philosophy; Benjamin Walter 1892–1940; Arendt Hannah 1906–1975; Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770–1831; Locke John 1632–1704; Blanchot Maurice; Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma by Sarah Clift explores alternatives to the linear temporality of modern historiography through an examination of canonical philosophies of history, memory and identity. Close readings of John Locke and G.W.F. Hegel are set alongside explorations of Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Maurice Blanchot, in order to set the book's exploration of philosophical modernity in the context of contemporary interest in finitude, identity and the temporalities of trauma. Clift Sarah : Sarah Clift is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Studies at the University of King's College, Halifax. |