In what he characterizes as a small treatise on time, Aug (L' cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris) argues that oblivion is critical either to society and to the person, simply because humans needs to know the way to put out of your mind as a way to style the total style of the current, of the instant, and of the expectancy. they need to additionally, he says, disregard the"
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