In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory.
He develops a persuasive view of the life of the past in such surface phenomena as codes, religious rites and festivals, and canonical texts on the one hand, and in the Freudian psychodrama of repressing and resurrecting the p.
Building on Maurice Halbwachs\'s idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a Cultural dimension too.
In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory