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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... society of speed , a speed engendered and sustained by elec- tronic technologies that operate at the velocity of light . More and more , society's structure comes to resemble an electronic circuit in which being " on line " is akin to ...
... society's own commercial face rather than challenging society's conceit and their own by holding their blemishes up to the critical standard of another era . In such an educational system the humanities will have little place . Mate ...
... society , as Jefferson recognized two centuries ago , is that for it truly to succeed , all its members must have an education that will " enable every man to judge for himself what will secure or endan- ger his freedom . " 13 The ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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