{"product_id":"public-forgetting-9780271036663","title":"Public Forgetting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReconsiders the negative status attributed to forgetting in both academic and popular discussions of public memory.  Demonstrates how a community may adopt idioms of forgetting in order to create new and beneficial standards of public judgment concerning the lessons and responsibilities of its shared past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePublic Forgetting \u003c\/i\u003eoffers readers a new conceptual approach, analytical vocabulary, and evaluative framework with which to recast forgetting in [a] more favorable light. . . . [The book] ably tackles more than two millennia of bias against forgetting. This study of a neglected and constitutive dimension of memory suggests new directions for research in the interdisciplinary field of memory studies. The signal contribution of \u003ci\u003ePublic Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e is its reminder of the intimate relationship of remembrance and forgetting. Appeals to remember are simultaneously, implicitly or explicitly, appeals to forget (and vice versa). By inviting readers to adopt this more complex appreciation of their interplay, Vivian sets a new critical standard for future scholarship in the field.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Katherine E. Mack \u003ci\u003eRhetoric and Public Affairs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vivian’s first two chapters fill a gaping hole in contemporary theories of public memory and as such should be required reading in all graduate seminars on the subject. The concluding chapter, furthermore, is highly valuable as a theoretical guide to discerning the possibilities and limits of forgetting as a rhetorical strategy. . . . Vivian’s study provides an original and well-argued scholarly challenge to both academic and public understandings of memory as a cultural master term. As such, it is likely to provoke a new line of thinking on the virtues of public forgetting and engender many more theoretically and critically sophisticated accounts of it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ekaterina V. Haskins \u003ci\u003eThe Quarterly Journal of Speech\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Vivian’s attention to the historical understandings of the relations of memory and forgetting ground his study while his astute textual readings of instances of public forgetting offer nuanced and textured elaborations of his theoretical concerns.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Greg Dickinson \u003ci\u003eRhetoric Society Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In his sustained meditation on forgetting, Bradford Vivian makes a singular and extremely valuable contribution to the field of memory studies. He substantially advances the theoretical discussion of memory and forgetting with his extended critiques (rhetorical analyses, really) of both ancient and recent formulations of collective public memory and forgetting. The conclusion is almost poetic in its lightness of touch. It pulls all the strands of the book into a single compelling case for forgetting as part of memory.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—James E. Young,University of Massachusetts Amherst, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Texture of Memory\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAt Memory's Edge\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bradford Vivian’s \u003ci\u003ePublic Forgetting: The Rhetoric and Politics of Beginning Again \u003c\/i\u003eis a critical and provocative contribution to rhetorical inquiry, communication studies, and memory studies. Considering the ever-expanding inquiry into the nature of memory across various disciplines and areas of study, Vivian presents a challenge to memory studies by centering forgetting as a co-constitutive factor in the act of remembering a communal and public past. . . . Offering an engaging and complex discussion about the relationship between memory and forgetting, as well as a convincing presentation of historical and contemporary examples of forgetting the past, \u003ci\u003ePublic Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e will be valuable to scholars studying memory, rhetoric, and history—especially scholars interested in exploring rhetorics of difference.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Hector Carbajal \u003ci\u003eJAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1. Forgetting in Public Life: An Idiomatic History of the Present\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.\tThe Two Rivers, Past and Present\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2.\tForgetting Without Oblivion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2. Public Forgetting: Alternate Histories, New Heuristics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3.\tHallowed Ground, Hollow Memory: Rhetorical Form and Commemorative Politics on September 11, 2002\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4.\tHistorical Forgetting: John W. Draper and the Rhetorical Dimensions of History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\tCultural Forgetting: The “Timeless Now” of Nomadic Memories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6.\tMoral and Political Forgetting: Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address and Second Inaugural\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400784388439,"sku":"9780271036663","price":26.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271036663.jpg?v=1730471570","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/public-forgetting-9780271036663","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}