Lethe (English, Harold Weinrich | Steven Rendall)

About the Book

"Our daily encounters with forgetting have not taught us enough about how much power it exercises over our lives, what reflections and feelings it evokes in different individuals, how even art and science presuppose--with sympathy or antipathy--forgetting, and finally what political and cultural barriers can be erected against forgetting when it cannot be reconciled with what is right and moral.... We find that cultural history provides a helpful…

ISBN: 9780801441936