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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... once was and how it could be again that sustained their faith , a vision articulated in the architec- tural symmetry and rhythmical harmony of Homeric verse.5 To the ancients who heard his tale , Ulysses was an inspiration and source of ...
... once felt . Transfigured into inked notes on a manuscript page , transmuted by fingers into waves of sound surging through the air , Gershwin's spirit becomes a presence that fills my study . Once actual experience passes , it ceases to ...
... once familiar words and ideas , we fit- fully search for the civic virtues and communal values we once possessed but have somehow unaccountably misplaced . Should we not find them , our loss may be symptomatic of a greater loss to come ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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