Description
A brilliant journey through the nature of memory, helping us understand how what is lostand what is rememberedshapes who we are.
In this revelatory and intimate exploration of the way memory works, Mark Rowlands, author of The Philosopher and the Wolf, reveals how memories arent fixed. They soften and consolidateand are distortedeach time we revisit them, even those memories most deeply ingrained. The way we call on memory is closer to a negotiation with the past.
From episodic memories like shining islands in dark waters and forgotten Rilkean memories that underpin our personalities and essential style to the memories we might hold that have been authored by others close to us, The Book of Memory draws on philosophical argument, a range of writers and thinkers, the latest neurological research, and psychology experiments to chart how memories are made, lost and remembered, with important consequences for how we understand ourselves.
Author: Mark Rowlands
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.72lbs
ISBN: 9781639369751
Language: English
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