TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lowethal,David
TI  - The past is a foreign country - revisited
SN  - 9780521616850
U1  - 901 22
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cambridge, Reino Unido
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - ARMARC
KW  - Historia
KW  - Filosofía
N1  - Introduction. -- An authorial credo. -- How my past became foreign. -- Finding the foreign country. -- Frequenting the foreign country. -- Themes and structure. – Primera parte: Wanting the past. --  Introduction. -- Nostalgia: dreams and nightmares. -- Nostalgia far and near. -- Looking back to Europe. -- Medical homesickness. -- Sentimental longing to retro irony. -- Time travelling. -- Goals in the revisited past. -- Explaining the past; Searching for the Golden Age; Self-aggrandizement; Changing the past Risks of revisiting the past. -- The past disappoints; Inability to cope with the past; Problems of returning to the present; Endangering the temporal fabric. -- Benefits and burdens of the past. – Benefits. -- Familiarity; Guidance; Communion; Affirmation; Identity; Possession; Enhancement; Escape Valued atributes. -- Antiquity; Continuity; Accretion; Sequence; Termination. -- Threats and evils. -- The grievous past; The stifling past; The menacing past. – Segunda parte: Disputing the past. – Introduction. -- Ancients vs. Moderns: tradition and innovation. -- The Renaissance and the Classical heritage. -- Distance; Imitation and emulation; Revival as creation From La querelle to the Enlightenment. -- Decay of nature; Effects of printing; The new science; Science vs. Art Victorian Britain. -- Innovation and retrospection; Medievalism and neoclassicism; Dismay at thraldom to the past; Whig history: reusing the past American Founding Fathers and sons. -- Autonomy and generational freedom; The eternal youth of America; The useless and crippling past; Ambivalence; Nostalgia for Old World antiquity; The debt to the Founding Fathers; Centennial comforts of the colonial past. -- The look of age: aversion. -- The organic analogy. -- Antipathy to age in humans and other beings. -- The decay of the world and its features. -- The superiority of youthful nations. -- Rejection of age and wear in artefacts. -- The look of age: affection. -- Old things should look old. -- Decay demonstrates and secures antiquity. -- The beauty of patina. -- Varieties and implications of aesthetic decay. -- Ideas evoked by decay. – Tercera parte: Knowing the past Introduction. -- Reifying the chimerical past. – Memory. -- Habit, recall, memento, reverie. -- Personal and shared. – Confirmability. – Forgetting. – Revising. -- Memory, memoir, and identity. – History. -- History is less than the past. -- History is more than the past. – Confirmability. -- Western and other histories. -- Chronology and narrative. -- Past vs. present: emergence of the foreign country. -- History, fiction, and faction. -- History and memory. – Relics. -- Perceiving the tangible past. -- Virtues and defects of reliquary knowledge. – Interconnections. -- Artefacts as metaphors in history and memory. -- Changing routes to the past. – Cuarte parte: Remaking the past. – Introduction. -- Saving the past: preservation and replication. – Preservation. -- Identifying, displaying, protecting. – Removal. -- Copying and replicating. -- Replacing the past: restoration and re-enactment. – Restoration. -- Restorative cycles in human and terrestrial history; Restoration in the arts; Recovering nature Re-enactment. -- Varieties of replay; Enduring the past’s authentic hardships; ‘Period rush’ vs. rectifying the past. – Conclusión. -- Improving the past. -- Fabricated pasts. -- Possessive and partisan pasts. -- Altering past scene and substance. -- Adaptations; Additions; Commemorations Aggrandizing and abridging. -- The past embellished and amplified; The past concealed and expurgated; The errant past deplored and displayed Anachronizing the past. -- Antiquating; Modernizing; Conflation Acceptability. -- Epilogue: The past in the present. -- The omnipresent past. -- The eviscerated past. -- The past made present. -- The past held to blame. -- Accepting the past. -- Collective responsibility for the past
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