Hyde Lewis A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past 9781250619532

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Автор: Hyde Lewis
Название: A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past
ISBN: 9781250619532
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Классификация:

Мемуары

Литература: история и критика

Философия сознания

Общество и культура: общие вопросы

Массовая культура

Социальная и культурная антропология, этнография

Познание и когнитивная психология

Методы улучшения памяти и мыслительных возможностей

ISBN-10: 125061953X
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 384
Вес: 0.34 кг.
Дата издания: 09.06.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 206 x 135 x 25
Поставляется из: США
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One of our true superstars of nonfiction (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche.

We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we can store, the quality of whats preserved, how we might better document and retain the moments of our life while fighting off the nightmare of losing all that we have experienced. But what if forgetfulness were seen not as something to fear--be it in the form of illness or simple absentmindedness--but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and rebirth?

A Primer for Forgetting is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, autobiography, and social criticism by the author of the classics The Gift and Trickster Makes This World. It forges a new vision of forgetfulness by assembling fragments of art and writing from the ancient world to the modern, weighing the potential boons forgetfulness might offer the present moment as a creative and political force. It also turns inward, using the authors own life and memory as a canvas upon which to extol the virtues of a concept too long taken as an evil.

Drawing material from Hesiod to Jorge Luis Borges to Elizabeth Bishop to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, from myths and legends to very real and recent traumas both personal and historical, A Primer for Forgetting is a unique and remarkable synthesis that only Lewis Hyde could have produced.

A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past, Hyde Lewis