Public forgetting : the rhetoric and politics of beginning again /

"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...

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Main Author:	Vivian, Bradford
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2010]
Subjects:	Memory > Social aspects. History > Philosophy. Collective memory. Rhetoric.