{"product_id":"forgetting-9781932698411","title":"Forgetting","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sina Najafi | Brigid Doherty | Allen Weiss\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cabinet\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cabinet\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criticism \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross fields as disparate as historiography, psychiatry and anthropology, remembering was long considered primary and forgetting simply a malfunction of recall. But after figures such as Nietzsche and Freud, the act of forgetting has undergone a wholesale reevaluation; for many modern thinkers, active forgetting is the precondition for living. \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c\/i\u003e issue 42 features Jennifer J. Almontez on Greek orators' mnemonic system of creating vast \"memory palaces\"; Chip Chapman on forgetting and the creation of national myths; Sophia Hall on animal memory and obedience training methods; an interview with Jean-Yves Le Naour on the story of Anthelme Mangin, France's best-known WWI amnesiac; and a portfolio featuring artist-designed monuments to forgetting. Elsewhere in the issue: Brigid Doherty on British analyst Wilfred Bion's notation for the unknown; Allen S. Weiss on the dance macabre; Erica Owen on the relationship between nineteenth-century racial theories and the creation of the modern valuation system for \"precious\" and \"semi-precious\" stones; and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabinet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999725535383,"sku":"9781932698411","price":793.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781932698411.webp?v=1783601542","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/forgetting-9781932698411","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}