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Rieff, David.
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Collective memory -- Philosophy.
History -- Philosophy.
Ethics.
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Rieff, David.
Collective memory -- Philosophy.
History -- Philosophy.
Ethics.
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In
praise
of
forgetting
:
historical
memory
and
its
ironies
/ David Rieff.
by
Rieff, David.
Yale University Press, [2016]
Call #:
901 R553i
Subjects
Collective
memory
-- Philosophy.
History -- Philosophy.
Ethics.
ISBN:
9780300182798 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Forgetting
:
historical
memory
and
its
ironies
Description:
x, 145 pages ; 22 cm.
Contents:
Footprints in the sands of time, and all that -- Must we deform the past in order to preserve it? -- What is collective
memory
actually good for? -- The victory of
memory
over history -- Forgiveness and
forgetting
-- The
memory
of wounds and other safe harbors -- Amor fati -- Against remembrance.
Summary:
"The conventional wisdom about
historical
memory
is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an independent writer who has reported on bloody conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asia, insists that things are not so simple. He poses hard questions about whether remembrance ever truly has, or indeed ever could, "inoculate" the present against repeating the crimes of the past. He argues that rubbing raw
historical
wounds, whether self-inflicted or imposed by outside forces, neither remedies injustice nor confers reconciliation. If he is right, then
historical
memory
is not a moral imperative but rather a moral option, sometimes called for, sometimes not. Collective remembrance can be toxic. Sometimes, Rieff concludes, it may be more moral to forget. Ranging widely across some of the defining conflicts of modern times - the Irish Troubles and the Easter Uprising of 1916, the white settlement of Australia, the American Civil War, the Balkan wars, the Holocaust, and 9/11 - Rieff presents a pellucid examination of the uses and abuses of
historical
memory
"--Provided by publisher.
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