The Temptation to Forget: Racism, Anti-Semitism, Neo-Nazism

by Franco Ferrarotti

"We are nothing in an absolute sense. We are only what we have been-more exactly, what we remember we were." So begins the latest book by one of Europe's most influential modern sociologists, Franco Ferrarotti. In The Temptation to Forget, Ferrarotti examines how many in the waning years of the 20th century "forget" or reinvent history to serve the purposes of ethnic, racial, or religious separation.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Franco Ferrarotti,was an Italian sociologist and a member of the Chamber of Deputies, elected with Adriano Olivetti's Community Movement.