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2013, No. 1 (4), On Representation
Adam Rajewski
Reflections on Jan Assmann’s Theory of Memory
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Keywords: communicative memory, cultural memory, Jan Assman
Abstract: The theory of memory constructed by Jan Assman has become one of the most important analytical systems explaining the reenactment of the past in the present. His book Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination has become an important means for the modern humanities, in which it wants to show the specificity of this phenomenon. This article is a reflection made after reading the book and discusses the main assumptions presented by Jan Assman.
About Author:
RAJEWSKI ADAM - PhD student, Institute of History at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.