A Primer for Forgetting
eBook - ePub

A Primer for Forgetting

Getting Past the Past

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Primer for Forgetting

Getting Past the Past

About this book

We live in a culture that prizes memory – how much we can store, the quality of what's 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, but rather as a blessing, a balm, a path to peace and forgiveness?

A Primer for Forgetting is a remarkable experiment in scholarship, autobiography and social criticism. 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 philosophical and political force. It also turns inward, using the author's 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.

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INDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Abdulali, Sohaila, ref1
abstract, ref1, ref2
Abū Nuwās, ref1
Achilles, ref1
Adams, Henry, ref1
Adenauer, Konrad, ref1
Ad Herennium, ref1
Aeneas, ref1, ref2
Aeneid (Virgil), ref1
Aeschylus, ref1
African National Congress (ANC), ref1, ref2
Agamemnon, ref1, ref2
agnosia, ref1, ref2, ref3
agonistic third, ref1, ref2, ref3
Alamo, ref1
Alcott, Bronson, ref1
aletheia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Alford, Terry, ref1
Amalek, ref1, ref2
amnesia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; amnesic amnesty, ref5, ref6, ref7; collective, ref8; dissociative, ref9, ref10, ref11; oral, ref12; state-transition, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17; structural, ref18
amnesty, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; amnesic, ref8, ref9, ref10; Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ref11
anamnesis, ref1
Anderson, Benedict, ref1
anonymity, ref1, ref2
Antigone (Sophocles), ref1, ref2
Antonius, ref1
apartheid: in South Africa, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; in U.S., ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
aphorisms, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Apollo, ref1, ref2
apoptosis, ref1
Arendt, Hannah, ref1, ref2, ref3
Aristotle, ref1
ars oblivionis, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Aschrott, Sigmund, ref1
Aschrott Fountain, ref1, ref2
Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory, ref1, ref2
Athena, ref1, ref2, ref3
Athens, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Atreus, ref1, ref2
Augustine, Saint, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Auschwitz, ref1
Austin, J. L., ref1
autophag...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Also By Lewis Hyde
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. What This Is
  9. Notebook I: Myth
  10. Notebook II: Self
  11. Notebook III: Nation
  12. Notebook IV: Creation
  13. Sources
  14. Index
  15. Permissions Acknowledgments
  16. Illustration Credits