Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia

by Francis O'Gorman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501324691
• ISBN13: 9781501324697
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"