Marking the mind : a history of memory / Kurt Danziger.
Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: vii, 305 pISBN:- 9780521726412 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0521726417 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 153.1 DAN.M
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153 TEE.M Motivation | 153 WOL.H HAND IN PSYCHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS | 153.08 LOM.R Readings in human intelligence / | 153.1 DAN.M Marking the mind : a history of memory / | 153.1 HAL.I Invitation to learning and memory / | 153.1 OSG.M MEASUREMENT OF MEANING | 153.12 HER.A Attributes of memory / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-301) and index.
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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