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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... remember her hand reaching out to me in the dark- ness , remember her saying , " I love you , " knowing who I was , knowing who we were , despite all that had been suffered . My wife's perseverance in recapturing her life has taught me ...
... remember , we may bolt through an emergency exit in our consciousness , locking the steel door - and the memory - behind us . If the experience is terribly traumatic , we may even try to escape from our own identity . Called a fugue ...
... remember , and a time to forget . " Yet if God's angels could not resist exulting over fallen enemies , it may be too much to expect better behavior from mere mortals . Nevertheless , if human beings are ever to live in peace , they ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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