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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... experience too painful to remember , we may bolt through an emergency exit in our consciousness , locking the steel door - and the memory - behind us . If the experience is terribly traumatic , we may even try to escape from our own ...
... experience , a medium onto which experience is transcribed : the prehistoric wall , the cuneiform tablet , the papyrus scroll , the medieval manuscript , the printed page . A culture must also have a place where these experiences are ...
... experience passes , it ceases to exist . But converted to physi- cal form and preserved , as musical notes transcribed , experience has the po- tential to be reborn and live once again . However spiritual or emotional an experience ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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