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Forgetting is usually juxtaposed with memory as its opposite in a negative way: it is seen as the loss of the ability to remember, or, ironically, as the inevitable process of distortion or dissolution that accompanies attempts to commemorate the past. The civic emphasis on the crucial importance of preserving lessons from the past to prevent us from repeating mistakes that led to violence and injustice, invoked most poignantly in the call of "Never again" from Holocaust survivors, tends to promote a view of forgetting as verging on sin or irresponsibility. In this book, Bradford Vivian hopes to put a much more positive spin on forgetting by elucidating its constitutive role in the formation and transformation of public memory. Using examples ranging from classical rhetoric to contemporary crises like 9/11, Public Forgetting demonstrates how, contrary to conventional wisdom, communities may adopt idioms of forgetting in order to create new and beneficial standards of public judgment concerning the lessons and responsibilities of their shared past.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Social & political philosophy

• Full title: Public Forgetting
• Author: Bradford Vivian
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222
• EAN: 9780271036663
• ISBN: 0271036664
• ID: 04047853
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Weight: 344 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2010

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