Against remembrance

Against remembrance

by Rieff, David

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Esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hatreds, violence and wars.

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  • Full title :Against remembrance / David Rieff.

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Esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hatreds, violence and wars.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:ix, 133 pages ; : 20 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780522858600, 0522858600
  • oclc:ocn701039017
  • LC Classification:HV7431
  • Dewey Decimal:364.4

Table of Contents

Footprints in the sands of time, and all that -- What is collective memory actually good for? -- Forgiveness and forgetting -- Amor fati.

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Subjects

Atrocities -- Prevention Brott mot mänskligheten -- prevention Crimes against humanity -- Prevention Ethnic relations -- Political aspects Etniska relationer -- politiska aspekter Grymheter -- prevention Memory -- Social aspects Minnet -- sociala aspekter National socialism -- Moral and ethical… Nazism -- etiska aspekter Nazisme -- Aspect moral Relations interethniques -- Aspect poli…

Writers

Rieff, David

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