History as an Art of Memory(English, Paperback, Hutton Patrick H.)

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History as an Art of Memory(English, Paperback, Hutton Patrick H.) is written by Hutton Patrick H. and published by University Press of New England. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0874516374 (ISBN 10) and 9780874516371 (ISBN 13).

With a broad, interdisciplinary command of the subject, Patrick H. Hutton considers the ideas of philosophers, poets, and historians, focusing especially on the work of Giambattista Vico, Maurice Halbwachs, Philippe Aries, and Michel Foucault. He surveys such questions as the roots of contemporary historical interest in the memory topic, the eternal paradox of repetition and recollection as moments of memory,the ways in which the art of memory has been refashioned to serce the needs of the modern age and becomes integrated into historical thinking, and historians' changing attitudes toward the historiographical tradition of scholarship on the French Revolution.