忘却の近代文化史 Forgetfulness : Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia

O'Gorman, Francis

Bloomsbury Academic USA（2020/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 200 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781501362064
• DDC分類 809

Full Description

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.

Contents

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