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MEMORY AS PHILOSOPHY - DUSTIN PEONE KARTONIERT ...

Dustin Peone argues that memory is the foundation of philosophical thought. This may seem
strange to the contemporary reader  but it is something that philosophers themselves have known
since before Socrates. Peone advocates a doctrine of memory as philosophy that ties
philosophical recollection back to the wisdom of the Muses  daughters of Memory  who sing of
what was  is  and shall be. Part One draws on the work of philosophers from Cicero to Vico to
Bergson to articulate the meaning and significance of memory. Peone understands memory not
merely in its psychological sense  but as the key to metaphysical and moral thinking. Part Two
takes up the philosophical history of memory. Peone gives an overview of its role as both a
speculative and technical instrument from ancient Greece through Renaissance Europe. Then with
the rise of modernity and the critical philosophy of Descartes  the memory tradition falls into
disrepute. Why did this happen? Was it accidental? Is a philosophical system grounded in memory
possible after Descartes? In the final chapters  Montaigne and Hegel are analyzed as
practitioners of memory as philosophy in the modern world.

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