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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... called an axon , and a branchlike set of antennas called dendrites . A chemically - induced electri- cal charge travels down the length of the axon , releasing molecules that are then picked up by the dendrites of an adjoining neuron ...
... called Phaedrus , the Greek philosopher relates the following account : At the Egyptian city of Naucratis , there was a famous old god , whose name was Thoth ; the bird which is called the ibis is sacred to him , and he was the inventor ...
... called the kingdom of Hades . In it flowed a river called Lethe ( lē - thē ) , the river of forgetfulness , from which all those who died had to drink.1 To the Greeks , forgetfulness was an inescapable curse , the daughter of a goddess ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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