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in praise of etting historical memory and its ironies in praise of etting is a long essay converted into a short book. it might be an important bookor at the very least it asks important questionsbut it is not a particularly wellexecuted one. taken as a whole it is a choppy andustrating narrative but this is not to say that rieff goes nowhere with it.
in praise of etting historical memory and its ironies in praise of etting was a somewhat difficult read due to his writing style that guaranteed name drops so often it often felt like a tolstoy novel. im talking about quotes ins of quotes level of name dropping. however after getting accustomed to that it m for an interesting read with challenging questions and few answers.
in praise of etting yale university press the conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in ge santayanas celebrated phrase those who cannot remember the past are comned to repeat it. today the consensus that it is moral to remember immoral to et is nearly absolute. and yet is this right?
in praise of etting by david rieff the new york times in praise of etting is about our collective memories how we remember our national histories and argue about our shared past. rieff contends that these collective remembrances are.
in praise of etting historical memory and its ironies the conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in ge santayanas celebrated phrase those who cannot remember the past are comned to repeat it. today the consensus that it is moral to remember immoral to et is nearly absolute. and yet is this right?
in praise of etting psychology today etting allows us to manage ourplicated lives encouraging us to remember whats important inspiring us to experience the present more fully and restoring us after painful events in our.
review in praise of etting historical memory and its but which is worse asks david rieff in his provocative new book remembering or etting? rieff argues that the world has acquired a dangerous obsession with memory and that it is time to.
in praise of etting historical memory and its ironies as such the call for etting is ultimately an argument in favour of the status quo. if etting means oing protest rieffs argument seems hamstrung by naive utopianism. rieff also presumes too much of a difference between memory and history which is another of the books main themes.
in praise of etting by jonathan silin the east etting is not an absence or lack but as the german philosopher hans gadamer suggests a condition of the mind that nourishes and promotes renewal. although my curiosity about etting is.
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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. His contentious, brilliant, and elegant essay is an indispensable work of moral philosophy.
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. His contentious, brilliant, and elegant essay is an indispensable work of moral philosophy.
in praise of etting historical memory and its ironies in praise of etting is a long essay converted into a short book. it might be an important bookor at the very least it asks important questionsbut it is not a particularly wellexecuted one. taken as a whole it is a choppy andustrating narrative but this is not to say that rieff goes nowhere with it.
in praise of etting historical memory and its ironies in praise of etting was a somewhat difficult read due to his writing style that guaranteed name drops so often it often felt like a tolstoy novel. im talking about quotes ins of quotes level of name dropping. however after getting accustomed to that it m for an interesting read with challenging questions and few answers.
in praise of etting yale university press the conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in ge santayanas celebrated phrase those who cannot remember the past are comned to repeat it. today the consensus that it is moral to remember immoral to et is nearly absolute. and yet is this right?
in praise of etting by david rieff the new york times in praise of etting is about our collective memories how we remember our national histories and argue about our shared past. rieff contends that these collective remembrances are.
in praise of etting historical memory and its ironies the conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in ge santayanas celebrated phrase those who cannot remember the past are comned to repeat it. today the consensus that it is moral to remember immoral to et is nearly absolute. and yet is this right?
in praise of etting psychology today etting allows us to manage ourplicated lives encouraging us to remember whats important inspiring us to experience the present more fully and restoring us after painful events in our.
review in praise of etting historical memory and its but which is worse asks david rieff in his provocative new book remembering or etting? rieff argues that the world has acquired a dangerous obsession with memory and that it is time to.
in praise of etting historical memory and its ironies as such the call for etting is ultimately an argument in favour of the status quo. if etting means oing protest rieffs argument seems hamstrung by naive utopianism. rieff also presumes too much of a difference between memory and history which is another of the books main themes.
in praise of etting by jonathan silin the east etting is not an absence or lack but as the german philosopher hans gadamer suggests a condition of the mind that nourishes and promotes renewal. although my curiosity about etting is.