Deja Vu: Aberrations of Cultural Memory Volume 12

by Peter Krapp

Book Overview

The pitfalls of cultural memory and forgetting, understood through the genealogy of the phenomenon called déjà vu Referring to a past that never was, déjà vu shares a structure not only with fiction, but also with the ever more sophisticated effects of media technology. Tracing the term from the end of the nineteenth century, when it was first popularized in the pages of the Revue philosophique, Peter Krapp examines the genealogy and history of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816643342
• ISBN13: 9780816643349
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"