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Document Details : Title: The Art of Memory Subtitle: Notes on a Lost Architecture Author(s): DODD, James Journal: Etudes phénoménologiques - Phenomenological Studies Volume: 6 Date: 2022 Pages: 97-123 DOI: 10.2143/EPH.6.0.3289794 Abstract : Is Augustine’s famous architectural descriptions of memory in the Confessions as a 'storehouse' or a 'palace' more than the use of a suggestive metaphor? Tracking the origin of Augustine’s descriptions to the ancient art of memory and its role in the rhetorical traditions of Greece and Rome, this essay suggests that entertaining the idea that there may have been a literal 'architecture of memory' finds significant support in these ancient practices. The essay then draws on the analyses of memory, image-consciousness, and imagination in Edmund Husserl’s writings, in order to provide a phenomenological account of the cogency of the idea. |
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