Memory

The idea of memory runs through contemporary public life at high voltage, generating polemic and passionate debate in the media, in the spheres of politics and in the academy. Yet although the contemporary ‘‘presentness’’ of memory is evident, how this is to be understood remains a matter of dispute. It is not clear what meanings attach themselves to the generic conception of memory itself; and while in the academy there is a common belief that memory is ‘‘everywhere,’’1 what this means remains an open matter. Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates constitutes one collective response to the contemporary salience
of memory and to the controversies it has activated. Our purpose is to guide readers through the interdisciplinary fields of memory research. In doing so we aim to bring out into the open what, intellectually and politically, is at stake in contemporary debate.
[New York: 2010]

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