The Craft of Oblivion

Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China

Albert Galvany

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English

State University of New York Press
01 July 2023

Literature: history & criticism; Asian history; Oriental & Indian philosophy; Confucianism

Series: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.

The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. Oblivion has tended to be relegated to a marginal position, often conceived as the mere destructive or undesirable opposite of memory, even though it performs an essential function in our lives. Forgetting and memory, far from being autonomous and mutually exclusive spheres, should be seen as interdependent phenomena. Drawing on perspectives from history, philosophy, literature, and religion, and examining both transmitted texts and excavated materials, the contributors to this volume analyze various ways of understanding oblivion and its complex and fertile relations with memory in ancient China.

By: Albert Galvany
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 621g
ISBN: 9781438493756
ISBN 10: 1438493754
Series: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
Pages: 380
Publication Date: 01 July 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Albert Galvany Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU.

Reviews for The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China

The papers in this volume examine memory-and forgetting-from an impressive variety of perspectives. In their different approaches and the sources they engage, the authors bring a new richness to the study of memory in premodern China. They show us that a sophisticated regarding of the past is not only the province of the modern but existed since antiquity in ways that can still surprise us. - Charles Sanft, author of Literate Community in Early Imperial China: The Northwestern Frontier in Han Times