“Since the end of the last century,” Walter Benjamin wrote, “philosophy has made a series of attempts to lay hold of the ‘true’ experience as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the civilized masses. It is customary to classify these efforts under the heading of a philosophy of life. Towering above this literature is Henri Bergson’s ...(展开全部)

In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.

One of Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year In Landscape and Memory Schama ranges over continents and centuries to reveal the psychic claims that human beings have made on nature. He tells of the Nazi cult of the primeval German forest; the play of Christian and pagan myth in Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers; and the duel between a monumental sculptor and a feminist ...(展开全部)

"Historiography has its fashions, and this is a clear and persuasive portrayal of a present trend away from the fraternization of history with philosophy, theology, literature, and the history of the plastic arts, toward a flirtation with politics and the social sciences....A More... fine study."

In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.

New media thrives on cycles of obsolescence and renewal: from celebrations of cyber-everything to Y2K, from the dot-com bust to the next big things -- mobile mobs, Web 3.0, cloud computing. In Programmed Visions, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that these cycles result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. New media proliferates "program...(展开全部)

In the popular imagination, archives are remote, largely obsolete institutions: either antiquated, inevitably dusty libraries or sinister repositories of personal secrets maintained by police states. Yet the archive is now a ubiquitous feature of digital life. Rather than being deleted, e-mails and other computer files are archived. Media software and cloud storage allow for th...(展开全部)

杰里米·M.布莱克，埃克塞特大学的历史学教授。他写过100多本书，包括《为美国而战：北美独立战争，1519?–?1871》（IUP，2011）和《战争和文化转变》。《地缘政治学与对统治地位的追逐》《知识的力量：信息与技术如何造就现代世界》《战争与技术》2008年，布莱克获得了军事历史协会颁发的“Samuel Eliot Morison Prize”（塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖）。

杰里米·M.布莱克，埃克塞特大学的历史学教授。他写过100多本书，包括《为美国而战：北美独立战争，1519?–?1871》（IUP，2011）和《战争和文化转变》。《地缘政治学与对统治地位的追逐》《知识的力量：信息与技术如何造就现代世界》《战争与技术》2008年，布莱克获得了军事历史协会颁发的“Samuel Eliot Morison Prize”（塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖）。

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, l...(展开全部)