Theories Of Social Remembering (Theorizing Society)

only after the invention of printing in the 1450s that hooks came to he seen as supplementing memory (I.e

'living link' between generations which ensures that the past is handed on via parents and grandparents and goes beyond the limits of individual experience.

The history of collective memory can he divided into five periods (l.e

memory as a repetition, carried over from oral culture, was gradually replaced by one of memory as a resurrection' (Hutton

stable, as many stories can he woven from the same material, and

function now bears a strong relationship to memory production (Crane 2000x). Thus,

Hollowing Ortega's idea of generation as 'the visual organ with which historical reality can be seen in its real and vibrant authenticity', Marias defines generation as 'systems of prevailing

it set out to destroy the authority of tradition, seen

Starting with Plato's argument that the development of writing itself is a threat to individual memory, the idea that memory is in crisis has become the focus point of the centuries-long debate about memory. Ilowever,