The Past is a Foreign Country

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1985-11
版次: 1
ISBN: 9780521294805
装帧: 平装
开本: 大16开
纸张: 胶版纸
页数: 489页
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  •   In this remarkably wide-ranging book Professor Lowenthalanalyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our lives. Aheritage at once nurturing and burdensome, the past allows us tomake sense of the present whilst imposing powerful constraints uponthe way that present develops. Some aspects of the past arecelebrated, others expunged, as each generation reshapes its legacyin line with current needs. Drawing on all the arts, the humanitiesand the social sciences, the author uses sources as diverse asscience fiction and psychoanalysis to examine how rebellion againstinherited tradition has given rise to the modern cult ofpreservation and pervasive nostalgia. Profusely illustrated, ThePast is a Foreign Country shows that although the past has ceasedto be a sanction for inherited power or privilege, as a focus ofpersonal and national identity and as a bulwark against massive anddistressing change it remains as potent a force as ever in humanaffairs. List of illustrations

    Introduction

    Part I. Wanting The Past:

     1. Reliving the past: dreams and nightmares

     2. Benefits and burdens of the past

     3. Ancients vs. moderns

     4. The look of age

    Part II. Knowing The Past: 5. How we know the past

    Part III. Changing The Past: 6. Changing the past

     7. Creative anachronism

    Bibliography and citation index

    General index
  • 内容简介:
      In this remarkably wide-ranging book Professor Lowenthalanalyses the ever-changing role of the past in shaping our lives. Aheritage at once nurturing and burdensome, the past allows us tomake sense of the present whilst imposing powerful constraints uponthe way that present develops. Some aspects of the past arecelebrated, others expunged, as each generation reshapes its legacyin line with current needs. Drawing on all the arts, the humanitiesand the social sciences, the author uses sources as diverse asscience fiction and psychoanalysis to examine how rebellion againstinherited tradition has given rise to the modern cult ofpreservation and pervasive nostalgia. Profusely illustrated, ThePast is a Foreign Country shows that although the past has ceasedto be a sanction for inherited power or privilege, as a focus ofpersonal and national identity and as a bulwark against massive anddistressing change it remains as potent a force as ever in humanaffairs.
  • 目录:
    List of illustrations

    Introduction

    Part I. Wanting The Past:

     1. Reliving the past: dreams and nightmares

     2. Benefits and burdens of the past

     3. Ancients vs. moderns

     4. The look of age

    Part II. Knowing The Past: 5. How we know the past

    Part III. Changing The Past: 6. Changing the past

     7. Creative anachronism

    Bibliography and citation index

    General index
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