Awards

• Winner of A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2000.

Overview

Remembering A Phenomenological Study Second Edition Edward S. Casey A pioneering investigation of the multiple ways of remembering and the difference that memory makes in our daily lives. A Choice Outstanding Academic Book An excellent book that provides an in-depth phenomenological and philosophical study of memory."" -Choice ... a stunning revelation of the pervasiveness of memory in our lives."" -Contemporary Psychology [Remembering] presents a study of remembering that is fondly attentive to its rich diversity, its intricacy of structure and detail, and its wide-ranging efficacy in our everyday, life-world experience.... genuinely pioneering, it ranges far beyond what established traditions in philosophy and psychology have generally taken the functions and especially the limits of memory to be."" -The Humanistic Psychologist Edward S. Casey provides a thorough description of the varieties of human memory, including recognizing and reminding, reminiscing and commemorating, body memory and place memory. The preface to the new edition extends the scope of the original text to include issues of collective memory, forgetting, and traumatic memory, and aligns this book with Casey's newest work on place and space. This ambitious study demonstrates that nothing in our lives is unaffected by remembering. Studies in Continental Thought-John Sallis, general editor Contents Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Remembering Forgotten: The Amnesia of Anamnesis Part One: Keeping Memory in Mind First Forays Eidetic Features Remembering as Intentional: Act Phase Remembering as Intentional: Object Phase Part Two: Mnemonic Modes Prologue Reminding Reminiscing Recognizing Coda Part Three: Pursuing Memory beyond Mind Prologue Body Memory Place Memory Commemoration Coda Part Four: Remembering Re-membered The Thick Autonomy of Memory Freedom in Remembering

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Book An excellent book that provides an in-depth phenomenological and philosophical study of memory. --Choice ... a stunning revelation of the pervasiveness of memory in our lives. --Contemporary Psychology [Remembering] presents a study of remembering that is fondly attentive to its rich diversity, its intricacy of structure and detail, and its wide-ranging efficacy in our everyday, life-world experience... genuinely pioneering, it ranges far beyond what established traditions in philosophy and psychology have generally taken the functions and especially the limits of memory to be. -- The Humanistic Psychologist

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Edward S. Casey is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of Imagining: A Phenomenological Study, Getting Back into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World, and The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History.

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