Forgetfulness
Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia
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. Forg…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5013-2470-3
- EAN: 9781501324703
- Produktnummer: 28596571
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 541 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 1 b/w illustration
Über den Autor
Francis O'Gorman, from English, Irish, and Hungarian families, was born in 1967 and educated as C.S. Deneke Organ Scholar of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where he took a double first and a doctorate in English literature. He is the author or editor of 23 books,mostly on English literature, and of essays on literature, music, and the condition of the modern English university. His Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History (Bloomsbury, 2015), described by John Carey as subtle, exploratory, completely original, was a Guardian Book of the Week, a Sunday Times Must Read, and one of Bookbag's History Books of the Year, 2015. For a decade, Francis O'Gorman held a chair in the School of English at the University of Leeds; he is now Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. When not working, he likes playing the organ, walking Arthur's Seat, or sitting in a bar.
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