In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies

by David Rieff

Book Overview

Informed by his extensive experience reporting on bloody conflicts around the globe, David Rieff's compelling new book questions the importance of collective memory. Arguing that rubbing raw historical wounds neither remedies injustice nor confers reconciliation, this is a must-read for anyone concerned with ethics, politics, and history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300227108
• ISBN13: 9780300227109
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.9"