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008			950602s1996 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020			_a019509364X (cloth)
020			_a9780195093643 (cloth)
020			_a0195093658 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a9780195093650 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aDC33.6 _b.M34 1996
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100	1		_aMatsuda, Matt K.
245	1	4	_aThe memory of the modern / _cMatt K. Matsuda.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1996.
300			_avi, 255 p. : _bill. ; _c25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-241) and index.
505	0	0	_tIntroduction: Histories: The Philosophy of Today -- _g1. _tMonuments: Idols of the Emperor -- _g2. _tNumbers: The Temple of Time -- _g3. _tWords: The Grammar of History -- _g4. _tBodies: The Third Convolution -- _g5. _tTestimonies: Deserving of Faith -- _g6. _tIdentities: Doctor, Judge, Vagabond -- _g7. _tDistances: In the Revolutionary Garden -- _g8. _tSpectacles: Machineries of Magic -- _g9. _tDesires: Last Tango at the Academie -- _tAfterword: Memories: The History of the Present.
520			_aMemory has a history. The Classical world ordered and valued events differently than the Medieval world; which, in turn, was replaced by "the memory" of the Renaissance. Matt Matsuda's compelling, multidisciplinary argument in The Memory of the Modern is that the understanding, value, and uses of memory changed yet again at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, becoming distinctively "modern." Matsuda proves his argument by visiting a remarkable array of "memory-sites": the destruction of a monument to Napoleon during the 1871 Paris Commune; the frantic selling of futures on the Paris stock-exchange; the state's forensic search for a vagabond rapist and murderer; a child's perjured testimony on the witness stand; a scientist's dissecting of the human brain; the invention of cameras and the cinema. Each chapter studies a distinct moment when new representations of the past were forged, contested, and put to cultural and ideological use. And all these diverse events cohere as Matsuda repeatedly shows which "memories" were celebrated and which forgotten, which traditions invented and appropriated and which discarded. More importantly, he explains why, and in doing so answers the broader question, Who controls what is remembered and who is believed?
650		0	_aMemory _xHistory.
650		0	_aTechnology _xSocial aspects _zFrance _xHistory _y19th century.
651		0	_aFrance _xCivilization _y1830-1900.
651		0	_aFrance _xHistory _yThird Republic, 1870-1940 _xPhilosophy.
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