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Zusatztext Forgetfulness brilliantly diagnoses the cultural Alzheimer's disease from which modern man so complacently suffers! to the great detriment of his character. O'Gorman makes a strong plea for the importance of cultural memory and! above all! for a healthier and less narrowly self-referential historiography. Informationen zum Autor Francis O'Gorman Klappentext Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent history of the idea that what is important in human life and work is what will happen in the future. Francis O'Gorman asks what the absence of history does to our sense of purpose, as well as what belonging both to time and place might mean in cultures without a memory. It is written in praise of the best achievement and deeds of the past, but is also an expression of profound anxiety about what forgetting them is doing to us.Examines the history and the consequences of living in the contemporary culture of forgetfulness. Zusammenfassung Forgetfulness is a book about modern culture and its profound rejection of the past. It traces the emergence in recent history of the idea that what is important in human life and work is what will happen in the future. Francis O'Gorman asks what the absence of history does to our sense of purpose! as well as what belonging both to time and place might mean in cultures without a memory. It is written in praise of the best achievement and deeds of the past! but is also an expression of profound anxiety about what forgetting them is doing to us. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Cultures of Memory 2. The Making of Modern Forgetting 3. Contemporary Cultures of Amnesia 4. Forgetfulness in Contemporary Cultural Narrative 5. Learning Pasts 6. The Problems of Forgetting National and Local Histories Acknowledgements References Index ...
