Public forgetting
Subtitle: the rhetoric and politics of beginning again
By: Bradford Vivian.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271036656
Subjects: Memory -- Social aspects; History -- Philosophy; Collective memory; Rhetoric
Description: "Reconsiders the negative status attributed to forgetting in both academic and popular discussions of public memory. Demonstrates how a community may adopt idioms of forgetting in order to create new and beneficial standards of public judgment concerning the lessons and responsibilities of its shared past"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Forgetting in public life : an idiomatic history of the present; title: The two rivers, past and present; title: Forgetting without oblivion; title: Public forgetting : alternate histories, new heuristics; title: Hallowed ground, hollow memory : rhetorical form and commemorative politics; title: On September 11, 2002; title: Historical forgetting : John W. Draper and the rhetorical dimensions of history; title: Cultural forgetting : the "timeless now" of nomadic memories; title: Moral and political forgetting : Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural.