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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies by David Rieff

In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies

David Rieff

160 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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, is nearly ...

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