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Recommended Literature

The curatorial team of the »AUSBLICKSPUNKTE: Bücher von und über Maurice Halbwachs« (books on and about Maurice Halbwachs) exhibition has made its collection available; recommendations include books by Halbwachs and books about him. All listed works are available at the University Library.


Books by Maurice Halbwachs

Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire. Paris 1925.

  • Das Gedächtnis und seine sozialen Bedingungen. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von Lutz Geldsetzer, Berlin 1966.

La mémoire collective, Paris 1950.

  • Das kollektive Gedächtnis. Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von Holde Lhoest-Offermann, Stuttgart 1967.
  • The collective memory. Translated by Francis Ditter, Jr., and Vida Yazir Ditter, New York 1980.

Esquisse d'une psychologie des classes sociales, Paris 1955.

  • The psychology of social class. Translated by Caire Delavenay, London 1958.
  • Entwurf einer Psychologie sozialer Klassen. Über die gesellschaftlichen Antriebe des Menschen. Aus dem Französischen von Stephan Egger, Konstanz 2001.

Books about Maurice Halbwachs

Aleida Assmann: Erinnerungsräume, München 2010.

Jan Assmann: Kultur und Gedächtnis, Frankfurt am Main 1988.

Georges Canguilhem: Über Maurice Halbwachs, Mit Dokumenten zu Halbwachs in Buchenwald, Berlin: August 2022.

Dietmar Wetzel: Maurice Halbwachs, Köln 2023.

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Portrait photo of Maurice Halbwachs, 1944
Maurice Halbwachs, 1944, photo: Collège de France Archives; edited.
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