Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of MemoryBloomsbury Academic, 28 de fev. de 2000 - 176 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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... communal burial places of Rome's early Christian community.20 There we see images of Adam and Eve and Moses , of Daniel in the lions ' den and Jonah and the whale , of Jesus and his disciples and the miracles their teacher performed ...
... communal experience and individual identity . In time , the human race compiled annals and com- posed histories to commemorate past events . Later , it invented sciences such as geology ( the study of the earth's story ) , paleontology ...
... communal consciousness of history . However , as we have already observed , the societal forces that even now work to erase the past are formidable , so formidable that attempts to turn the tide of memory may seem futile . Yet if such ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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