HIST 122 Lecture Notes - Jacques Derrida, Cultural Memory, Personal Identity
17 Apr 2013
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Who are we: self-sameness over time. Sense of i-ness: personal identity, memory: the basis of personal identity john locke, three things comprise identity, who we are, what we know, what we have, the internal and external identity, finding our place through negotiation. The inside and the outside: personal and larger group identity. Diminishing fixedness: biological origins cant be changed. Diachronic identity: preservation of self-sameness over time. Contextual identity: one aspect used at particular time. Indian practice of suti: burning wife on husband s funeral pyre. Many wollstonecraft: first spoke up about violence against woman in britain. Starvation, massacre, gas, drug, inoculations, burning, drowning, deportation. Exaggeration of jewish role (in the ending on wwi) Three kinds of anti-semitism: conservative, non-violent, denying jobs. Alienation segregation expropriation deportation denying humanity extermination. The case of the dachau concentration camp. Schubraum: jewish people brought into atrium -like room, told they were no longer people, but property, room where original examinations took place.
