In praise of forgetting : (Record no. 70252)
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| fixed length control field | 160524s2016 ctu 000 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780300182798 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | YDXCP |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | rda |
| Transcribing agency | YDXCP |
| Modifying agency | BTCTA |
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| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 901 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Rieff, David |
| Relator term | author. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 112798 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | In praise of forgetting : |
| Remainder of title | historical memory and its ironies / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | David Rieff. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New Haven ; |
| -- | London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Yale University Press, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2016. |
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| Extent | x, 145 pages |
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| Content type term | text |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | unmediated |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | volume |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Footprints in the sands of time, and all that -- Must we deform the past in order to preserve it? -- What is collective memory actually good for? -- The victory of memory over history -- Forgiveness and forgetting -- The memory of wounds and other safe harbors -- Amor fati -- Against remembrance. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "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. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an independent writer who has reported on bloody conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asia, insists that things are not so simple. He poses hard questions about whether remembrance ever truly has, or indeed ever could, “inoculate” the present against repeating the crimes of the past. He argues that rubbing raw historical wounds—whether self-inflicted or imposed by outside forces—neither remedies injustice nor confers reconciliation. If he is right, then historical memory is not a moral imperative but rather a moral option—sometimes called for, sometimes not. Collective remembrance can be toxic. Sometimes, Rieff concludes, it may be more moral to forget. Ranging widely across some of the defining conflicts of modern times—the Irish Troubles and the Easter Uprising of 1916, the white settlement of Australia, the American Civil War, the Balkan wars, the Holocaust, and 9/11—Rieff presents a pellucid examination of the uses and abuses of historical memory. His contentious, brilliant, and elegant essay is an indispensable work of moral philosophy." -- publisher |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Collective memory |
| General subdivision | Philosophy. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 59788 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | History |
| General subdivision | Philosophy. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 33534 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Ethics |
| 9 (RLIN) | 29012 |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Copy number | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| House of Lords Library - Palace | House of Lords Library - Palace | Dewey | 20/05/2016 | 12.59 | 3 | 901 RIE | 012318 | 08/12/2017 | 11/01/2017 | 1 | 12.59 | 08/12/2017 | Book |