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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... knowledge , and that greater knowledge led men to challenge the authoritarian power of church and state . As historian Robert Darnton has stated : " The printing press helped shape the events it recorded . " 31 In the eighteenth century ...
... knowledge . " The motto is in Latin , the language of the Catholic Church and , before that , of the Roman Empire . But the motto's sentiments are much older still . The words come from the Old Testament , a verse from an ancient Hebrew ...
... knowledge is ines- sential to modern life , that it is perfectly possible to get by knowing nothing whatever of history or literature . I would disagree with that ar- gument , seeing no reason why the ambition of educators should be to ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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