1st Edition

Social Amnesia A Critique of Contemporary Psychology

By Russell Jacoby Copyright 1997
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

191 Pages
by Routledge

Russell Jacoby defines social amnesia as society's repression of remembrance - society's own past. In this book, Jacoby excavates the critical and historical concepts that have fallen prey to the dynamic of a society that strips them both of their historical and critical content. Social Amnesia is an effort to remember what is perpetually lost under the pressure of society. It is simultaneously a... Read more
The Nation We Are; I: The Diversity of America; II: T wo Interpretations of American History; III: Social Science Discovers Regionalism; IV: Regionalism in the Arts; V: Federation or Disunion : The Political Economy of Regionalism; Immovable Bodies and Irresistible Forces; VI: Still Rebels , S till Yankees; VII: New York and the Hinterland; VIII: The Two Old Wests; IX: The Great Plains; X: American Heroes; XI: Regionalism and Nationalism in American Literature; XII: Regionalism and Education 1; Southern Essays; XIII: The Dilemma of the Southern Liberals 1; XIV: Howard Odum and the Sociological Proteus; XV: Expedients vs . Principles –C ross -Purposes in the South; XVI: The Southern Poet and His Tradition 1; The World State; XVII: The Shape of Things and Men : H. G. W ells and Æ on the World State

Biography

Russell Jacoby