The Past Is a Foreign Country - Revisited by David Lowenthal Details
The past is still necessary - and inevitable. A quarter of a century after the publication of his classic book on human attitudes towards his past, David Loewenthal revisits how…
The past is still necessary - and inevitable. A quarter of a century after the publication of his classic book on human attitudes towards his past, David Loewenthal revisits how we celebrate, contain, compete and encircle the past to serve current needs.
And shows how nostalgia and heritage are now spreading in every aspect of public and popular culture. History embraces nature, the universe as well as mankind.
The past is seen, touched, tasted and lost as it hears and reads. Empathy, re-enactment, memory, and memories overwhelm traditional history.
The united past, once adopted by experts and adopted on written texts, has become fragmented, a disputed history forged by all of us. The new ideas in history, memory, prejudice, objectivity, artifacts, identity, originality, remorse and remorse make this book again the basic evidence of the past that we inherit, reshape and bring into the future..
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