Lethe
the art and critique of forgetting
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Author
Publication
2004 - Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
63,500 words, Guess
Page Count
254 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL17119493M
- ISBN-100801441935
- OCLC Control Number53131150
- OCLC Control Numberletheartcritique00wein
- Library of Congress Control Number2003020138
and 2 more
- LibraryThing936152
- Goodreads1208813
Classifications
- LCCBD181.7 .W4513 2004
Description
"Lethe is an exploration of the art of forgetting - as the counterpart of the rhetorical art of memory - in Western culture from the Greeks to the present. It offers analyses of works by, among others, Augustine, Bellow, Borges, Casanova, Celan, Cervantes, Dante, Descartes, Freud, Goethe, Homer, Kant, Kleist, Levi, Locke, Mallarme, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Ovid, Pirandello, Plato, Proust, Rabelais, Rousseau, Sartre, and Wiesel. What emerges is a general view of forgetting that combines a recognition of its necessity and inevitability with a critique of forgetting (particularly in the case of the Holocaust) and the need to combat it. Harald Weinrich's epilogue considers forgetting in the present age of information overflow, particularly in the area of the natural sciences."--Jacket.
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