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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... recent study , out of twenty- five prominent liberal arts colleges in the nation , only five were requiring their English majors to read Shakespeare.63 In 1996 , the National Association of Scholars ( NAS ) issued a report summarizing ...
... to discard what it cannot use , and to bring into context with the distant and intermediate past the most recent contributions to the Great Con- versation . 13 Our most urgent task , Hutchins believed , was to NATIONAL THERAPY • 97.
... recent surveys demonstrate that such cultural amnesia persists in our own day ( see chap . 1 ) . Indeed , the farther we get from the past - even the more recent past — the more it seems to fade from our collective memory ( see chap . 4 ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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