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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies is a 2016 non-fiction book by David Rieff, published by Yale University Press.Rieff argues the contrarian position that sometimes history, including past mass atrocities, is better forgotten than commemorated: [1] "whereas forgetting does an injustice to the past, remembering does an injustice to the present".
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Piaget defined assimilation as the process of making sense of the novel and unfamiliar information by using previously learned information. To assimilate, Piaget defined a second cognitive process that served to integrate new information into memory by altering preexisting schematic networks to fit novel concepts, what he referred to as ...
Vergangenheitsbewältigung describes the attempt to analyze, digest and learn to live with the past, in particular the Holocaust.The focus on learning is much in the spirit of philosopher George Santayana's oft-quoted observation that "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it".
The governor looked over the largely empty hall and said, “I can’t help but feel that the citizens of the state have not taken hold of the true significance of Armistice Day. …
[28] There seems to a sense of irony when the speaker tells the beloved to forget him. Schoenfeldt reasons that "we cannot quite take these lines literally" because "to tell someone to forget something is to make it harder for them to forget." This demonstrates a certain "reverse-psychology appeal" as a sense of irony. [29]
The first time you try a move, you’re “following directions,” he says. But with repeated practice, these systems work together to make the route feel easier and more automatic.
Frontispiece illustration of a bust of Lord Byron in the 1824 edition of Don Juan. (Benbow publisher) Byron was a prolific writer, for whom "the composition of his great poem, Don Juan, was coextensive with a major part of his poetical life"; he wrote the first canto while resident in Italy in 1818, and the 17th canto in early 1823. [3]