In praise of forgetting: historical memory and its ironies
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Acknowledgments ix
one Footprints in the Sands of Time, and All That i
two Must We Deform the Past in Order to Preserve It? 22
three What Is Collective Memory Actually Good For? 43
four The Victory of Memory over Fiistory 60
five Forgiveness and Forgetting 76
s 1 x The Memory of Wounds and Other Safe Harbors 94
seven Amor Fati 111
eight Against Remembrance 127
Continuedfrom front flap
The conventional wisdom about
historical memory is summed
up in George Santayana’s celebrated
phrase, “Those who cannot remem-
ber the past are condemned to repeat
it.” Today, the consensus that it is
moral to remember, immoral to for-
get is nearly absolute. And yet is this
right? David Rieff, an independent
writer who has reported on bloody
conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and
Central Asia, insists that things are
not so simple. He poses hard ques-
tions about whether remembrance
ever truly has, or indeed ever could,
“inoculate” the present against repeat-
ing the crimes of the past. He argues
that rubbing raw historical wounds—
whether self-inflicted or imposed
by outside forces—neither remedies
injustice nor confers reconciliation.
If he is right, then historical memory
is not a moral imperative but rather a
moral option—sometimes called for,
sometimes not. Collective remem-
brance can be toxic. Sometimes, Rieff
concludes, it might be more moral to
forget.
Ranging widely across some of the de-
fining conflicts of modern times—the
Irish Troubles and the Easter Upris-
ing of 1916, the white settlement of
Australia, the American Civil War,
the Balkan wars, the Holocaust, and
9/11—Rieff presents a pellucid exam-
ination of the uses and abuses of
historical memory. His contentious,
brilliant, and elegant essay is an indis-
pensable work of moral philosophy.
david R1E F F is the author of many
books, including Slaughterhouse:
Bosnia and the Failure of the West,
A Bed for the Night: Humanitarian-
ism in Crisis, and, most recently, The
Reproach of Hunger: Food, Justice, and
Money in the 21st Century.
Continued on back flap
Printed in Great Britain
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