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Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia de Professor Francis O'Gorman

Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia

Autor Professor Francis O'Gorman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 oct 2017
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 the cultural narratives that urge us to resist our collective amnesia. O'Gorman argues that such narratives, in rich but oblique ways, indicate our guilt about modernity's great unmooring from history. Forgetfulness asks what the absence of history does to our sense of purpose, as well as what belonging both to time and place might mean in cultures without a memory. It is written in praise of the best achievement and deeds of the past, but is also an expression of profound anxiety about what forgetting them is doing to us.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781501324697
ISBN-10: 1501324691
Pagini: 200
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illustration
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

Follow up to Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History that delves further, but from a different perspective, into many of the major themes of that book, particularly the modern and contemporary obsession with the future and how this might be damaging at both an individual and a cultural level

Notă biografică

Francis O'Gorman, from English, Irish, and Hungarian families, was born in 1967 and educated as C.S. Deneke Organ Scholar of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where he took a double first and a doctorate in English literature. He is the author or editor of 23 books, mostly on English literature, and of essays on literature, music, and the condition of the modern English university. His Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History (Bloomsbury, 2015), described by John Carey as "subtle, exploratory, completely original," was a Guardian "Book of the Week," a Sunday Times "Must Read," and one of Bookbag's "History Books of the Year, 2015." For a decade, Francis O'Gorman held a chair in the School of English at the University of Leeds; he is now Saintsbury Professor of English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. When not working, he likes playing the organ, walking Arthur's Seat, or sitting in a bar.

Cuprins

Introduction1. Cultures of Memory2. The Making of Modern Forgetting3. Contemporary Cultures of Amnesia4. Forgetfulness in Contemporary Cultural Narrative5. Learning Pasts6. The Problems of Forgetting National and Local HistoriesAcknowledgementsReferencesIndex

Recenzii

Offers a piercing insight into the modern era's fascination with newness and the resulting cultural implications. From a professor's perspective, I know that I have read a book worth my time and effort when I find it transforming how I see my daily life. Forgetfulness is such a book . full of insightful points and crucial discussions of the relationship between lost cultural memory and the modern habit of forgetting. Forgetfulness is an insightful exploration of an ephemeral, amnesiac modernity that both warrants careful examination and inspires lingering thought.
Crisp and elegant . Cultural memory, [O'Gorman] argues, shapes our sense of time and connectedness to one another on a local and global level. By "winding down the portcullis" on the past, we risk closing our minds.
A book as acutely intelligent and as original as this is a rare gift of fortune. Read it and you will not easily forget what you have learned.
[A]n engaging dissection of an important phenomenon.
[This] provocative and engaging little book should be read as a personal essay ... [O'Gorman] manages to be both erudite and accessible, which is something of a feat.
After a glut of books about mindfulness it came as something of a relief to encounter Forgetfulness . the book is supremely intelligent, but with the knowledge worn lightly and it's eminently readable, regardless of how you feel about the conclusions he draws . a book to be savoured and considered.
What is wrong with the modern world? Why does life seem so pointless, anxious and annoying? For Francis O'Gorman, the answer is pleasingly simple: we have lost touch with the stability of traditions from the past, and now live in a state of constant, confusing flux ... O'Gorman is at his best when he writes about literature, which is not always the case with literary critics ... At his best Prof O'Gorman sounds, perhaps not surprisingly, like an inspired young John Ruskin reminding his readers that they needed to pay more attention to their heritage before it vanished forever and they are left in an ugly, utilitarian world fit to serve material rather than spiritual needs.
An ambitious, often engaging argument.
Carrying his learning lightly, Francis O'Gorman elegantly enquires into the reasons why the 21st century is losing touch with the past. History, he argues, has become a mere commodity, emptied of meaning by commercial choices, ideological sleight of hand, cultural theories and educational decisions. In these post-truth days he challenges us to reconnect with the past, actively and analytically, in order to restore the links between sense and meaning, language and reality, and to reestablish the authority of the past. No nostalgist, O'Gorman speaks for history. This is not a hymn to the past, but a call critically to recall it. At a time of migration and globalization, he rediscovers the home of memory. Forgetfulness is for anyone who wants to remember what it is like to read an intelligent and provocative book.
Forgetfulness brilliantly diagnoses the cultural Alzheimer's disease from which modern man so complacently suffers, to the great detriment of his character. O'Gorman makes a strong plea for the importance of cultural memory and, above all, for a healthier and less narrowly self-referential historiography.