How Modernity Forgets Paperback - Softcover

Connerton, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521745802 ISBN 13: 9780521745802

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This book explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how the structure and speed of modern society affects our ability to remember things. A must-read for anyone interested in the contemporary western world.

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'How Societies Remember was a tightly argued account of the importance of habitual, bodily memory to cultural transmission; How Modernity Forgets is a substantive cultural diagnosis of modernity, centred on the theme of cultural amnesia ... It ... [says] what it says with the sort of clarity that puts most cultural analysis to shame. Modernity ... has displaced social life from place and replaced the known with the merely known about. In a series of superb historical vignettes Connerton shows that this has occurred in three ways: through the dismantling of the city frontier in the nineteenth century and the growth of megacities in the twentieth, through the development of superhuman speed ... and through 'the repeated intentional destruction of the built environment' ... via suburbanization, deindustrialization and urban renewal.' The British Journal of Sociology

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Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This book, first published in 2009, explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how the structure and speed of modern society affects our ability to remember things. A must-read for anyone interested in the contemporary western world.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521745802
• ISBN 13: 9780521745802
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 158