Historical Memories in Culture, Politics and the Future: The Making of History and the World to Come

ISBN-13: 9783034317467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 279 str.

Rahman Haghighat

Opis

This book is written to satisfy the individual s desire for intellectual stimulation, to sow in the mind the seed of new ideas, and involve the reader in productive debates. It covers culture, history and the future, raising questions, presenting arguments and engaging the enquirer in reflection. It illustrates the relationship between past history and current social practices, proposing the concept of compartmentalization of behaviour, where history is understood to contribute to why there are so many displaced excesses amongst the English, alongside an ethos of moderation why, in a country with such high civility, there is hooliganism, why riots in English cities can be particularly violent, why the country has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Europe, why it lags behind many others in the early diagnosis of cancer and what can be done about this.
The book also explores what affects us all globally the making of history, the psychology of dictatorships, the unconscious in history, the development of new democracies, the emerging psychosocial trends in the world to come, the cognitive, emotional and identity-ethos of the evolving century and the -future- of history. Finally, it identifies history s foundations and the fundamental human tendency which, beyond the class interests of Marx and the search for recognition of Hegel, motivates and perpetuates history itself."

Spis treści

Contents: A Historical Memory from Old England - The Essence of Englishness - The Workhouse of History - Historical Memories of Tradition - Truth, Discourse and Interpretation: Henry V - Truth, Discourse and Interpretation: Joan of Arc - The Psychology of Dictatorship - Healing the Wounds of History - The Future of History.

O autorze

Rahman Haghighat studied language and civilization at the Sorbonne and after completing his medical training at Birmingham and Cambridge, trained as a psychiatrist at University College Hospital and as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic, London. He completed a PhD in sociology with special emphasis on social discourse at University College London (UCL), where he worked as a Research Fellow before starting this work.