Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again - Tapa blanda

Vivian, Bradford

 
9780271036663: Public Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again
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ISBN 10: 0271036664 ISBN 13: 9780271036663
Editorial: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010

Sinopsis

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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Bradford Vivian is Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

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Editorial
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Año de publicación
2010
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0271036664
ISBN 13 
9780271036663
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Número de páginas
222
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ISBN 10:  0271036656 ISBN 13:  9780271036656
Editorial: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010
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