MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02591nam a22002418a 4500
001 2008020515
003 DLC
005 20080507154644.0
008 080506s2008 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008020515
020 $a9780521898157 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a9780521726412 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aBF371$b.D36 2008
082 00 $a153.1/209$222
100 1 $aDanziger, Kurt,$d1926-
245 10 $aMarking the mind :$ba history of memory /$cKurt Danziger.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2008.
263 $a0808
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aDoes 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?
650 0 $aMemory$xHistory.