Religion and Cultural Memory

Jan Assmann is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg. He is the author of many books, of which the following have been translated into English: Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt (2005), The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohs (2002), The Search for God in Ancient Egypt (2001), and Moses the Egyptian: The Memory of Egypt in Western Monotheism (1998).

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Prefaceiii @toc2:Introduction: What is 'cultural memory'?0 1Invisible religion and cultural memory 2Monotheism, memory and trauma. Reflections on Freud's book on Moses000 3Five stages on the road to the canon. Tradition and written culture in Ancient Israel and early Judaism000 4Remembering in order to belong. Writing, memory and identity000 5Cultural texts suspended between writing and speech000 6Text and ritual. The meaning of the media for the history of religion000 7Officium memoriae: ritual as the medium of thought000 8A life in quotation. Thomas Mann and the phenomenology of cultural memory000 9Egypt in Western memory000 @toc4:Notes000

"Religion and Cultural Memory is not only an excellent book for scholars who want to develop a timely understanding of theoretical key concepts like memory, text, myth, and ritual, but is also a stimulation introduction for anyone interested in the genisis of our cultural self-understanding." —Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques