Memory : encounters with the strange and the familiar / John Scanlan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scanlan, John, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory (Philosophy).

Identity (Psychology).

Home--Psychological aspects.

Home.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, [England] : Reaktion Books, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When we think of getting older, we know we will slowly lose more and more of our memory-and with it, our sense of where we belong and how we connect to others. We might relax a little if we considered the improvements in computer data storage, which may lead us into a future when the limits of our memory become less constricting. In this book, John Scanlan explores the nature of memory and how we have come to live both with and within it, as well as what might come from memory becoming a process as simple as retrieving and reading data. Probing the ways philosophers look at me

Contents:

Cover; Memory: Encounters with the Strange and the Familiar; Imprint Page; Contents; Introduction; I. Pasts; II. Presences; III. Ecologies; Conclusion; References; Select Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Photo Acknowledgements; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 9, 2014).

ISBN:

9781780232249

1780232241

OCLC:

881184120