Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia [Audiobook] download free by Francis O'Gorman
- Listen audiobook: Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia
- Author: Francis O'Gorman
- Release date: 2017/7/26
- Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9781501324697
- Rating: 8.81 of 10
- Votes: 883
- Review by: Leia Gifford
- Review rating: 8.75 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/2
- Duration: 2H28M43S in 256 kbps (40 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-06
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG4, FLAC, TTA, MOD, WMA Lossless, MP3, WAV, WMA (compression RAR, DEB, TGZ, ZIP, TAR.GZ)
- Total pages original book: 200
- Includes a PDF summary of 22 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M19S (4.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 forgetting has been embraced as a requirement for modern existence and how our education, as well as life with fast-moving technology, further disconnects us from our pasts. But he also examines the cultural narratives that urge us to resist our collective amnesia. O'Gorman argues that such narratives, in rich but oblique ways, indicate 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: History: Theory & Methods, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Social & Cultural History, Literary Studies: General, Cognition & Cognitive Psychology, Memory Improvement & Thinking Techniques
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 22.01 USD
- Dimensions: 140x216x22.86mm
- Weight: 393g
- Printed by: Bloomsbury Academic USA
- Published in: New York, United States
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