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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... monuments from their origi- nal sites , setting up replicas in their place . 10 The traveler is therefore well advised to see the world before it goes away , leaving behind only a Dis- neyesque facsimile of its former self . With ...
... monuments on public land are not safe . In New York City's thou- sand parks there are some fifteen hundred public monuments , over half of which have major sculptural or architectural features , most of which are de- generating into ...
... monuments rather than their sudden destruction is a process so slow that it is invisible to the eye until years have passed and dramatic before - and- after photographs are examined . Nor is the year - in - year - out maintenance of ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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