| Forgetfulness: Making the Modern Culture of Amnesia Contributor(s): O'Gorman, Francis (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501362062 ISBN-13: 9781501362064 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $18.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern - Self-help | Personal Growth - Memory Improvement |
| Dewey: 153.125 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 200 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Modern |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): O'Gorman, Francis: - Francis O'Gorman is from English, Irish, and Hungarian families and was educated at the University of Oxford as Organ Scholar of Lady Margaret Hall. He has written or edited twenty books, mostly on English literature, and his many essays discuss literature, mental health, music, and the state of the modern university. His most recent piece of creative non-fiction is a memoir, Forgetfulness (2016). He is a Professor in the School of English at the University of Leeds, UK. |