Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of permissions
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Wanting the past
- 1 Nostalgia: dreams and nightmares
- 2 Time travelling
- 3 Benefits and burdens of the past
- Part II Disputing the past
- Part III Knowing the past
- Part IV Remaking the past
- Select bibliography
- Index
- References
3 - Benefits and burdens of the past
from Part I - Wanting the past
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2015
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- List of permissions
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Wanting the past
- 1 Nostalgia: dreams and nightmares
- 2 Time travelling
- 3 Benefits and burdens of the past
- Part II Disputing the past
- Part III Knowing the past
- Part IV Remaking the past
- Select bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
Only a good-for-nothing is not interested in his past.
Sigmund FreudDwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye; forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.
Russian proverbThe future is dark, the present burdensome; only the past, dead and finished, bears contemplation. Those who look upon it have survived it; they are its products and its victors.
Geoffrey Elton, 1967We want to live in history, where all our ancestors and all our brethren live and die in common … But we also desire to escape from history …We want to be chained in history but we also want to be unlinked
Alan Liu, 2008Is the past a burden and a trap? Or an anchor and a springboard?
Penelope Green, 2010Why do we need the past? What do we want it for? What risks does regard for it entail? Does fondness for things past match the yearnings of nostalgia and time-travel fiction? How we engage with our heritage is more consequential, yet the dilemmas that ensue have much in common with those revealed in previous chapters. Here I survey attitudes towards the past in general, the benefits it supplies, the burdens it entails, and the traits that make it desirable or reprehensible.
We live in the present and see only what currently exists. What is to come is of obvious moment; we are programmed to care about the future we’ll inhabit. But why be concerned with things over and done with? Modernity threatens to strip the past of two hallowed values: enlightenment and empowerment. Yet bygone times command attention and affection as strongly as ever. An anthropologist finds ‘perduring belief in both the importance and knowability of the past’ from the traces it has left – human remains, documents, artefacts, psychic memories, genetic mutations.
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