In Praise of Forgetting Rieff David
In Praise of Forgetting Rieff David A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's woundsThe conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George…
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In Praise of Forgetting Rieff David
A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's woundsThe conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. He poses hard questions about whether remembrance ever truly has, or indeed ever could, "inoculate" the present against repeating the crimes of the past. And yet is this right?David Rieff, an independent writer who has reported on bloody conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asia, insists that things are not so simple.
If he is right, then historical He argues that rubbing raw historical wounds--whether self-inflicted or imposed by outside forces--neither remedies injustice nor confers reconciliation.
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