Cultural Amnesia and Sustainable Development

Cultural Amnesia and Sustainable Development

A few of the main concepts of cultural memory are investigated in this paper, in order to extend the idea of cultural memory to include the diversity of past cultures and cultural products. It is claimed that understanding of diversity, in a dialogue with the past, enhances cultural understanding fo...

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Main Author: Viðar Hreinsson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MI-AN Publishing 2014-12-01
Series:Kultura (Skopje)
Subjects:
Cultural memory, cultural amnesia, cultural diversity, dialogism, sustainable development, reductionism, ra-tionalism
Online Access:http://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/26
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spelling doaj-77d5f50b0fc944d4a820d7a63a5a65282020-11-25T00:07:26ZengMI-AN PublishingKultura (Skopje)1857-77171857-77252014-12-0147273625Cultural Amnesia and Sustainable DevelopmentViðar Hreinsson0The Reykjavik Academy, Reykjavík, IcelandA few of the main concepts of cultural memory are investigated in this paper, in order to extend the idea of cultural memory to include the diversity of past cultures and cultural products. It is claimed that understanding of diversity, in a dialogue with the past, enhances cultural understanding for the benefit of sustainable development.http://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/26Cultural memory, cultural amnesia, cultural diversity, dialogism, sustainable development, reductionism, ra-tionalism
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title Cultural Amnesia and Sustainable Development
title_short Cultural Amnesia and Sustainable Development
title_full Cultural Amnesia and Sustainable Development
title_fullStr Cultural Amnesia and Sustainable Development
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description A few of the main concepts of cultural memory are investigated in this paper, in order to extend the idea of cultural memory to include the diversity of past cultures and cultural products. It is claimed that understanding of diversity, in a dialogue with the past, enhances cultural understanding for the benefit of sustainable development.
topic Cultural memory, cultural amnesia, cultural diversity, dialogism, sustainable development, reductionism, ra-tionalism
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