
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


After reporting on the cruelest wars of the late 20th century, journalist and cultural critic David Rieff concluded that remembering history was no defense against repeating it, and could even be a culprit.
His book, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, explains why.
By TLV1 Studios4.6
145145 ratings
After reporting on the cruelest wars of the late 20th century, journalist and cultural critic David Rieff concluded that remembering history was no defense against repeating it, and could even be a culprit.
His book, In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies, explains why.

1,212 Listeners

342 Listeners

628 Listeners

173 Listeners

307 Listeners

978 Listeners

428 Listeners

195 Listeners

433 Listeners

3,230 Listeners

1,089 Listeners

597 Listeners

228 Listeners

104 Listeners

823 Listeners