Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia by O'Gorman, Francis

Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501362064)

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Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia by O'Gorman, Francis

Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia

$19.95
Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia by O'Gorman, Francis

Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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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 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.

Author: Francis O'Gorman
ISBN-10: 1501362062
ISBN-13: 9781501362064
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2020
Pages: 200
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
By Francis O'Gorman
By Francis O'Gorman
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Francis O'Gorman is Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is the author or editor of 23 books, including Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History (Bloomsbury, 2015). He is currently working on three separate projects: on Yeats, on London, and on Emily Brontë.

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