Reviews for Face-to-face

The average rating for Face-to-face based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-04 00:00:00 John Beane If you're starting to get interested in collective memory, you should read this early on. I try to keep in mind that Halbwachs is mostly interested in what is now called social memory (which is a subgenre of collective memory, so I am not saying he is wrong). The field has come a long way since this text was written, and collective memory scholars owe a great deal to Halbwachs.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-07-01 00:00:00 mama papa It's incredible, given how foundational Halbwachs' work is to the field of memory studies and how often it's cited, that this seems to be the one & only English-language version of his unfinished opus that's in print. I'd welcome a different edition & translation, drawing from his earlier work as well as "Cadres sociaux..." (and without all the annoying typos in this one). Halbwachs' memory theory is philosophical rather than empirical in base, and I disagree with much of it. But it was transformative and still worth reading. I wonder how his thinking might have changed, had he not been one of the Holocaust's staggering number of victims.