Marking the mind : a history of memory /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Danziger, Kurt
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
Memory
Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0818/2008020515.html
Table of Contents:
  • Does memory have a history?
  • Individual memory as a historical problem
  • A conceptual history
  • The history of memory and the discipline of psychology
  • The rule of metaphor
  • The persistence of metaphor
  • How the gift of mnemosyne changed
  • Inscription : writing as memory
  • First sketch of a literary model : Aristotle
  • The culture of literacy and its standard model of memory
  • Physical analogies
  • Computer memory
  • The cultivation of memory
  • From the singer of tales to the art of memory
  • The order of places and the order of things
  • Monastic memory
  • Medieval manuscripts as mnemonic devices
  • Working with texts
  • Decline of mnemonics and memory discourse
  • Privileged knowledge
  • Esoteric knowledge
  • The privatization of memory
  • Alienated memory
  • Biology and the science of forgetting
  • Memory as injury
  • Another kind of victim
  • An experimental science of memory
  • Is memory a scientific category?
  • The memorizing trap
  • The road not taken : gestalt psychology
  • Sir Frederic's insight : reproduction is reconstruction
  • The dark ages of memory research and its critics
  • A new language
  • Memory kinds
  • A coat of many colours
  • Sensory memory and memory of the intellect
  • Enter phrenology
  • Phylogenesis and individual memory
  • Philosophers make distinctions
  • Amnesics speak
  • Memory systems in experimental psychology
  • The memory that is short
  • Truth in memory
  • Imagination and memory
  • A science of testimony
  • Psychoanalysis as an art of memory
  • Politics, truth, and traumatic memory
  • A place for memory
  • Where is memory?
  • Generic phrenology
  • Loss of geographical certainties
  • A note on networks
  • The decade of the brain
  • Memory in its place
  • Fuzzy boundaries
  • The inner senses
  • Faculty psychology and its demise
  • Memory, perception, and the individual
  • Is memory in the head?

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