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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... Ulysses.1 Yet of the book's twenty - four chapters , only eight deal with maritime adventure . The rest of the story , two - thirds of it in fact , takes place in Greece , Ulysses ' homeland . For in reality The Odyssey's prin- cipal ...
... Ulysses once again . Somewhere in the darkness he had reached inside himself and found the inner resources he needed to win his freedom . In laying claim to those resources , he had liberated his very identity . And when Ulysses headed ...
... Ulysses returned home at last after twenty years of war and wan- dering , fresh challenges awaited him . In the two decades that had passed since he had left Ithaca , a new genera- tion of nobles had come of age . Many of their fathers ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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