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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABBREVIATIONS
• Introduction
• 1 Memory and inscription
• The wax tablet
• The art of memory
• Memory and the book
• 2 Memory and the self
• The turn inward
• Rousseau’s chains of association
• ‘The picture of the mind revives again’
• 3 Involuntary memories
• Freud’s ‘Mystic Writing Pad’
• Proust’s ‘madeleine’
• Traumatic memories
• 4 Collective memory
• Maurice Halbwachs and collective memory
• Pierre Nora and the ‘sites of memory’
• War and collective memory
• Conclusion: the art of forgetting?
• GLOSSARY
• BIBLIOGRAPHY