Shortly before his death in 1984, Michel Foucault spoke of an idea for a new book on "technologies of the self." He described it as "composed of different papers about the self...,about the role of re
With a broad, interdisciplinary command of the subject, Patrick H. Hutton considers the ideas of philosophers, poets, and historians, focusing especially on the work of Giambattista Vico, Maurice Halb
Philippe Aries (1914-1984) played the most influential role, according to Hutton (emeritus, history, U. of Vermont) in bringing about a transformation in French historical writing, by rehabilitating t
In this book, the author provides acomprehensive overview of the intense and sustained work on the relationshipbetween collective memory and history, retracing the royal roads pioneeringscholars have
