- Collective memory, Ethics, Philosophy, History
"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.
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Grave, spare, earnest and character-led.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- David Rieff
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 153
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780300182798
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