Forgetting Oscar Jonsson Seen or unseen

Seen or unseen

Facilitated professional development activities build teachers' skills through group meetings

With beautifully crafted words and exuberant watercolor illustrations

and the personal letters and diaries of Ohio reformers

Idra Novey

Forgetting Oscar Jonsson Seen or unseenWe cannot understand the phenomenon of remembering without invoking its opposite, forgetting. Taking his cue from Beckett 'only he who forgets remembers' Josipovici uncovers a profound cultural shift from societies that celebrated ritual remembrance at fixed times and places, to our own Western world where the lack of such mechanisms leads to a fear of forgetting, to what Nietzsche diagnosed as an unhealthy sleeplessness that infects every aspect of