His conceptualization of memory as discursive practice provides memory with 'discursive materiality' and

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

in many countries changes in collective memory are legally induced. In

intellectual culture in which a broad pattern of 'explanatory pluralism' is

unlike the prescntist perspective, which assumes that contlmet is the natural state of society and that memories are socially 'constituted' from above,

'ethnic memory' (Le

an effort to comprehend and interpret while making a story intelligible and interesting (Schudson

In order to overcome the individualistic bias of psychological theories and the social determinism of many sociological studies, this book aims to review traditional and recent interpretations of the idea of collective memory.The main issue requiring clarification is the question of n'bo is a remembering subject and what is the nature of the past.

the war, or 'shock' generally as the hallmark of modern experience, is also, according to Benjamin, a category of awakening, as it disrupts life's complacent conviction of its own immortality. Thus,