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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... things best if we are in the same environment in which we first learned them ; and third , that memory is emotional - the things we remember most are the things that have had an emotional impact upon us . Thus , if an event is shocking ...
... things made by hand may evoke . Such " creative retrogression " bears witness to the reality and valid- ity of another time and challenges the facile , but commercially profitable , argument that all things new and fast are ...
... things could be done differently and better ; to seek by themselves and in themselves for the only reason for things , looking to results without getting entangled in the means toward them and looking through forms to the basis of things ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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