Against remembrance
By: David Rieff
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Carlton, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780522858600
Subjects: Crimes against humanity; Social aspects; Moral and ethical aspects; Ethnic relations; National socialism; Memory; Political aspects; Atrocities; Prevention
Description: Esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hatreds, violence and wars.
Notes: Also available in an electronic version via the Internet.