In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies by David Rieff

In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies

David Rieff

160 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Informed by his extensive experience reporting on bloody conflicts around the globe, David Rieff's compelling new book questions the importance of collective memory. Arguing that rubbing raw historical wounds neither remedies injustice nor confers...

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