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Against Remembrance by David Rieff
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In this searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and at its worst, how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hat ...Show more
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies by David Rieff
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remem ...Show more
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and its Ironies by David Rieff
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an independ ...Show more
Swimming in the Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir by David Rieff
27.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer. He tries to understand what it means to desire so desparately, as his mother did to the end of her life, to try almost anything in order to go on living.
The Reproach of Hunger - Food, Justice and Money in the 21st Century by David Rieff
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
In a groundbreaking book, based on six years of on the ground reporting, expert David Rieff offers a masterly review about whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach as increasingly promised.Can we provide enough food for 9 billion (2 billion more than today) in 2050, espec ...Show more
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