Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward

by Mark Freeman

Although the idea of hindsight is frequently associated with the biases, distortions, and outright lies of memory--as in the infamous "20-20" scenario or the conviction that one "knew it all along"--Mark Freeman maintains that this process of looking backward over the terrain of the past can also serve as a profound source of insight, understanding, and self-knowledge. Consider Tolstoy's harrowing tale of Ivan Ilych, revisiting his past on the eve...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019538993X
• ISBN13: 9780195389937
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"