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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... mean severing every tie that made him who he was . It is no accident that the poet calls Ulysses ' temptress " Calypso , " for it is a name that in ancient Greek means " the hider . " By keeping Ulysses on her remote island , Calypso ...
... means [ 1994's ] graduation ceremonies dumped about 750,000 more semi - literate 18 - year - olds into the work force with high school diplomas clutched in their fists . " 36 Of black high school seniors , 54 percent were " below basic ...
... means to our further liberation , a reservoir of energy from which we can draw a renewed sense of direction and purpose . As one contemporary social critic has put it : " The past , even if it is not supe- rior in total to the present ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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