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Against Remembrance

David Rieff

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English
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
01 April 2011
Against Remembrance will give you pause for thought- maybe forgetting is the greatest blessing we have.

In Against Remembrance, David Rieff provocatively argues that the business of remembrance, particularly of the great tragedies of the past, are policitised events of highly selective memory. Rather than ending injustices, as we expect it to, collective memory in so many cases dooms us to an endless cycle of vengeance. Humanity, he says, simply cannot cope with the true ambivalence of historical events. And if we remember only partially, how can our memories serve us, or our society, as well as we hope?
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Imprint:   MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 134mm,  Spine: 14mm
Weight:   145g
ISBN:   9780522858600
ISBN 10:   0522858600
Pages:   144
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Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

David Rieff is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. His memoir of his mother Susan Sontag's final illness Swimming in a Sea of Death, was published in January 2008.

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