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Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting
by Weinrich, Harald; Randall, Steven, Translator
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 0801441935
- ISBN 13
- 9780801441936
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About This Item
Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.: Cornell Univ Pr, 2004. Ithaca: Cornell University, 2004. First edition in English, translated from the German by Steven Randall. Quarter cloth, 254 pp. including index. This 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. Harald Weinrich analyzes works by such authors as St. Augustine, Borges, Plato, Cervantes, Dante, Proust, Freud, Homer, Nietzsche, and Wiesel. What emerges is a general view of forgetting that combines a recognition of its inevitability with a critique of forgetting (particularly in the case of the Holocaust) and the need to resist it. Weinrichs epilogue considers forgetting in the present age of information overflow. New in new dust jacket, protected with a mylar cover.. First Edition in English. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Respectful Exits (US)
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- Title
- Lethe: The Art and Critique of Forgetting
- Author
- Weinrich, Harald; Randall, Steven, Translator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition in English
- ISBN 10
- 0801441935
- ISBN 13
- 9780801441936
- Publisher
- Cornell Univ Pr
- Place of Publication
- Ithaca, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- FORGETTING ART OF MEMORY ST AUGUSTINE BORGES PLATO DANTE PROUST CERVANTES HOMER NIETZSCHE WIESEL
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- Nonfiction;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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