Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Henderson, Michael
Author's Email Address	mhender@lsu.edu
URN	etd-1110103-153129
Title	Remembrances of Things Past and Future: Memory and Its Significance for Politics in Nietzsche, Sophocles, and Isaiah
Degree	Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department	Political Science
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Cecil Eubanks Committee Chair Wayne Parent Committee Chair Ellis Sandoz Committee Member
Keywords	temporal consciousness narrative memory
Date of Defense	2003-10-30
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis is an inquiry into memory and its significance for politics as described in three sources. Part of its task is to grasp Nietzsche’s phenomenology of memory thought and to inquire into what understanding about politics emerges. Nietszche speaks about memory with respect to the self, yet he offers little elaboration about intersubjectivity or transcendence for linking memory to justice. To further investigate his approach, this essay examines two other texts, Philoctetes, by Sophocles, and Isaiah, which set this discussion on a political stage. What emerges is an approach to how memory can have an impact on self, community, and politics in the search for justice.
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