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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Dimbath, Oliver
• Dimbath, Oliver

Titel

Oblivionism : Forgetting and Forgetfulness in Modern Science

Auflage

1st ed

Link zum Volltext

• UTB Scholars Vollzugriff 2024

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The book offers a fundamental view on the problem of forgetting in sociology in general and within sociology of knowledge. Furthermore it focuses - as a case study - on the field of modern science. With recourse to the term ,oblivionism', originally introduced with ironic-critical intent by the german romance scholar Harald Weinrich, it analyzes the fundamental and multifaceted problem of the loss of knowledge in the field of science. A declarative-reflective, an incorporated-practical and an objectified-technical memory motif is at the centre. These form the basis for the development of the three forms of forgetting that are also central to modern science: forgetfulness, wanting to forget and, ultimately, making one forget.
• Oliver Dimbath is Professor of General Sociology at the University of Koblenz-Landau. As a sociologist of memory, he has written numerous works on questions of social memory as well as social remembering and forgetting. He is co-editor of the book series 'Soziales Gedächtnis, Erinnern und Vergessen - Memory Studies'.
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