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In Praise of Forgetting

Historical Memory and Its Ironies

In Praise of Forgetting( )
Author: Rieff, David
ISBN:978-0-300-22710-9
Publication Date:Apr 2017
Publisher:Yale University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.00
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A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds 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...
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