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- W82202120 abstract "This thesis examines contemporary discourses of forgetting, and in particular thenotion of `cultural amnesia'. I take as the object of my research the mobilization ofamnesia in the humanities and social sciences during the last two decades, arguingthat this concept does not have a consistent relation to cultural phenomena butrather names a perceived loss, absence or deficiency, and sometimes excess orsurfeit, in knowledge and the articulation of knowledge. I explore what is at stake inthese rulings of cultural and social deficiency, the values and frameworks that areinvoked to authorize them, and the specific fact of their being set out in terms ofmemory.My method of historicizing the emergence of the concept of amnesia as a preferredmeans of figuring cultural deficiency is to trace in contemporary discourses offorgetting certain legacies of Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School. I submit thatTheodor W. Adorno's thought is construed by theorists working on the subject ofmemory as a significant antecedent for contemporary debates; specifically, he isregarded as having anticipated late twentieth-century anxieties about amnesia. Iattend to such characterizations both by offering a fresh consideration of thefunction of memory-related concepts in Critical Theory and by questioning what is atstake in contemporary claims of a relationship to - as well as in frequent disavowalsof - aspects of this current of thought.The chapters that follow examine: the discursive functions of the concept ofamnesia in cultural and social theory; the relationship between the concepts ofreification and forgetting; the processes through which the postwar period becamerecognized as a period of amnesia for the Holocaust; the place of the concept ofamnesia in Fredric Jameson's thesis on postmodernism and in today's recollectionof his contribution; and the return of the notion of `the forgotten' in the turn to ethicsin poststructuralist literary theory." @default.
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