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In Praise of Forgetting
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies | David Rieff
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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, (…more)
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Forgot to do a #bookmail post this last Monday. Refreshing the readings for my History, Memory, Commemoration grad seminar.

BookishMarginalia These look interesting! 4y
tournevis @BookishMarginalia Tagged and Memory (Tortell, Turin, Young) especially so. Not without problems and should be used as a start to broader reflection, but very thought-provoking (edited) 4y
tournevis @BookishMarginalia I added Memory, tagged as a whole to the readings, plus chapters from all the others, except On the Art of Being Canadian, that would have been too difficult to contextualize in a history seminar (I really like it though). 4y
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I picked this book up from a footnote in an essay and it got me interested in historical, collective memory. The work got me thinking about why we remember and how nation states and institutions remind us to remember the past. But does it help us to forgive? Is forgetting necessary for forgiveness? It was only after reading the book I found that David Rieff is the son of Susan Sontag. I have since read "The Ethics of Memory," by Margarlit.

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"We can imagine a universal brotherhood of wolves but not of humans, since the needs of wolves are limited and definable and therefore conceivably satisfied, whereas human needs have no boundaries we could delineate ". ?

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I do not agree with some of what Rieff argues but the fresh perspective and clear writing so far (I am in the beginning chapters) are irresistible. 👏