Memory and Utopia

This book is composed of two parts. The first comprises chapters 1) on the connection between memory and forgetfulness in Europe during the twentieth century, 2) on women's experience of becoming recognized as full subjects in the time of the crisis and "death" of the so-called universal subject, and 3) on the conjugation between utopia and desire in the 1968 movements of students, women and workers. Oral history, feminist theory and practice and the history of the new social movements are the disciplinary fields in which these chapters are situated and from which they interpret the past. The second part is resolutely concerned with the present, and particularly with the sense of belonging to Europe that has emerged in the last 15-20 years among the generations of 1968. The new types of European identification do not conflict with self-recognitions based on gender, age and cultural belonging. On the contrary, all these attributes combine in characterising a subjectivity that is no longer hierarchical and exclusive. One can feel, as Derrida has written, European "among other things". Thus, one can recognize herself as a woman, as a black, as a Muslim, as well as a European, if she wishes to do so. The theme of inter-subjectivity connects all the topics of the book, in the sense that subjectivity, memory and utopia are understood as relationships between human subjects, for what concerns both their genesis and their persistence.

ISBN 184553025X   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9781845530259 (What's this?)   Pages 192 Publisher Equinox Publishing Ltd   Volumes 1 Imprint Equinox Publishing Ltd   Published in London Format Hardback   Series title Critical Histories of Subjectivity & Culture S. Publication date 01 Sep 2005   Height (mm) 234 Non-book description ppc   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress 2006010151   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY 126

Pt. I		The past and historical research
1		Memories between silence and oblivion		15
2		Becoming a subject in the time of the death of the subject		33
3		'Utopia' and desire		54
Pt. II		The present and the sense of belonging
4		From the ironies of identity to the identities of irony		77
5		The last identification : why some of us would like to call ourselves Europeans and what we mean by this		96

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