Forgetting

by Gabriel Josipovici

We cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett - 'only he who forgets remembers' - Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural shift from societies that celebrated ritual remembrance at fixed times and places, to our own Western world where the lack of such mechanisms leads to a fear of forgetting, to what Nietzsche diagnosed as an unhealthy sleeplessness that infects every aspect...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784108901
• ISBN13: 9781784108908
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Little Island Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.2"