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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 shows how capitalism embraced forgetting as a requirement for modern existence and how modern education, as well as life with fast-moving technology, further disconnect us from our pasts. But he also examines the cultural narratives and contemporary preoccupations that are against the grain of our collective amnesia. O'Gorman argues that such narratives, in rich but oblique ways, indicate our recognition, as well as our guilt, about modernity's great unmooring from history. Forgetfulness 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.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Plný název: Forgetfulness
• Podnázev: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia
• Autor: Francis O'Gorman
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 200
• EAN: 9781501324697
• ISBN: 1501324691
• ID: 15494729
• Nakladatelství: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Hmotnost: 394 g
• Rozměry: 147 × 222 × 21 mm
• Datum vydání: 05. October 2017

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