The aim of this handbook is to offer the first truly integrated survey of this interdisciplinary and international field of cultural memory studies. Sometimes these concepts converge at other times they seem to exclude one another and all too often, researchers in one discipline seem to take no notice of the work done in neighboring disciplines. Today, the complex issue of cultural memory is re-markably interdisciplinary: Concepts of cultural memory circulate in history, the social and political sciences, philosophy and theology, psychology, the neurosciences, and psychoanalysis, as well as in literary and media studies.
As a consequence, the study of the relations between culture and memory has diversified into a broad range of approaches.
In the course of the last two decades this area of research has witnessed a veritable boom in various countries and disciplines. Cultural memory studies came into being at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the works of Maurice Halbwachs on mémoire collective.
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