Cultural memory and communicative memory - Lucas Bietti.
Jan Assmann. Cultural Memory and Early Civilization: Writing, Remembrance, and. Maurice Halbwachs and Jan Vansina. By and large, it is the former that occupies Assmann’s time. The research connection of Halbwachs to the Holy Land, Jerusalem, was by no means an outlying interest of that sociologist. However, it provided Assmann with a helpful entry into the vagaries of the ars memoriae.
Interrelationship of Memory and Personal Identity Personal identity and memory are related in many aspects throughout the continuity of an individual’s life. From the discussion and analysis of Personal Identity, it became evident that the identity of a person is dependent on a set of necessary and sufficient conditions that must be fulfilled over a given time.
Philosophers such as Jan Assmann applied these views to other arenas. Assmann noted a difference between cultural memory and communicative memory. Cultural memory is used as a place to store past events while communicative memory is used in daily life but exists only in the present. Other thinkers such as Paul Connerton and Pierre Nora extended these concepts of collective memory even further.
In “Communicative and Cultural Memory,” Jan Assmann draws on his own classic work “Collective Memory and Cultural Identity” to analyze a concept he calls “cultural memory. In two to three pages (excluding title and reference pages), explain in your own words what cultural memory is and apply this concept to literature.
I know of no modern scholarly study on collective memory and aspects relating to it, from Thucydides to modern Israel, from Genesis to modern Germany, that has not in some form drawn on Jan Assmann's theories on the relation between collective and cultural memory. In short, this book is an absolute classic, and will be invaluable to English-speaking scholars.' Susanna Elm, University of.
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.
Building on Maurice Halbwach's theories of collective memory, Assmann argues that the development of writing opened a new way for human societies -- expressed in religious, scientific, legal, and political terms -- to perpetuate cultural memories over remarkably long stretches of time. It may sound simple and even obvious, but just a few minutes poring over the pages of this book will make you.