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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... less conspicuous than others but are nonethe- less just as important . THE STRUCTURE OF MEMORY A Universe Within In a single MEMORY AND PERSONAL IDENTITY • 27.
... less and less incentive to remember or value what once was . But it is not grand monuments alone that are in danger ; the records of daily life are in peril as well . Although our era has been dubbed the Informa- tion Age , that very ...
... less than struggling to preserve the foun- dations of our own identities.5 Conserving the past is critical because , unlike factory - made parts , the remnants of time are irreplaceable ; once gone , no substitutes can ever be ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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