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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... thought Columbus landed in America after 1500 ; 60 percent didn't know the " shot heard round the world " was fired at Concord , Massachusetts ; and 23 percent thought " from each according to his ability , to each according to his need ...
... thought , and the joint stimuli for artistic and literary creativity . No wonder then that Thomas Jefferson and his colonial col- leagues were thoroughly schooled in the philosophy and history of ancient times . Rather than inhibiting ...
... Thought in Twentieth Century America . Cambridge , MA : Harvard University Press , 1998 . Roszak , Theodore . America the Wise : The Longevity Revolution and the True Wealth of Nations . Boston : Houghton Mifflin , 1998 . • The Cult of ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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