Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of MemoryBloomsbury Academic, 28 de fev. de 2000 - 192 páginas According to Bertman, just as an individual needs memories to maintain a sense of personal identity, so does a nation need them in order to survive. Like Alzheimer victims, however, today's Americans are rapidly losing a consciousness of history, and with it, a sense of national identity and direction. |
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... Robert Maynard Hutchins , former chancellor of the University of Chicago , once noted : " The state of the nation determines the state of education . " 105 Our examination has identified three premises that have shaped , and con- tinue ...
... Robert Maynard Hutchins , president and , until 1950 , chancellor of the University of Chicago.7 Hutchins's dream was to create an entire four - year general education program based on the reading and dis- cussion of a series of classic ...
... Robert Maynard Hutchins , ed . , Great Books of the Western World ( Chi- cago : University of Chicago Press / Encyclopaedia Britannica , 1952 ) . 11. Hutchins , The Great Conversation , vol . 1 of Hutchins , Great Books , chap . 1 , 1 ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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