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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... lost contact . " 71 Surely we must not romanticize the past ; but , even more importantly , we must not become oblivious to it . Romanticizing the past may unnecessarily denigrate the present and our own achievements in it ; but ...
... lost the vital link between present and past . Retrograde Amnesia The kind of amnesia most familiar to us is known ... lost many treasured memories felt that he had also lost his sense of self . He became so ob- sessed with the missing ...
... Lost Civilization , " New York Times , February 27 , 1994 , 6E , national edition . For efforts to replace the lost collections , see " Destruction of Historic Sites Prompts Appeal by Bosnians , " Chronicle of Higher Education , January ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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