Lethe
Kunst und Kritik des Vergessens
by Harald Weinrich
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"Lethe is an exploration of the art of forgetting - as the counterpart of the rhetorical art of memory - in Western culture from the Greeks to the present. It offers analyses of works by, among others, Augustine, Bellow, Borges, Casanova, Celan, Cervantes, Dante, Descartes, Freud, Goethe, Homer, Kant, Kleist, Levi, Locke, Mallarme, Montaigne, Nietzsche, Ovid, Pirandello, Plato, Proust, Rabelais, Rousseau, Sartre, and Wiesel. What emerges is a general view of forgetting that combines a recognition of its necessity and inevitability with a critique of forgetting (particularly in the case of the Holocaust) and the need to combat it.
Harald Weinrich's epilogue considers forgetting in the present age of information overflow, particularly in the area of the natural sciences."--Jacket.
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Lethe: the art and critique of forgetting
2004, Cornell University Press
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2003, Cornell University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-308) and indexes.
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