The Scientific Revolution holds a powerful place in the popular understanding of science. It is taught in high school physics and history classes, is the subject […]
In your Final Research Paper, you will apply the tools of historical and literary critical analysis to a specific example cultural memory. Choose a specific cultural […]
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and Heisenberg’s later ideas considering uncertainty, led to a fundamentally new era in physics in which empirical science was supplemented with theoretical […]
Documentary filmmaker Claude Lanzmann has accused Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List of trivializing the holocaust by attempting to represent what cannot be represented. Philosopher Richard Kearney […]
In “Communicative and Cultural Memory,” Jan Assmann draws on his own classic work “Collective Memory and Cultural Identity” to analyze a concept he calls “cultural memory.” […]