The Ethics of MemoryHarvard University Press, 2009 M07 1 - 240 páginas Much of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns the politics of memory. In a book that asks, "Is there an ethics of memory?" Avishai Margalit addresses a separate, perhaps more pressing, set of concerns. |
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... chapter and deal rather extensively with its implication. The point of mentioning it here is to say that nothing big triggered my interest in the ethics of memory. But then again, there is something big and terrifying lurking beyond it ...
... chapters, I reach the conclusion that while there is an ethics of memory, there is very little morality of memory. The drift of this idea—perhaps more appropriately ... Chapter 1.) Ethics, in the way I use the term, tells us 7 introduction.
... Chapter 1. One account is morality; the other is ethics. Because it encompasses all humanity, morality is long on geography and short on memory. Ethics is typically short on geography and long on memory. Memory is the cement that holds ...
... Chapter 2 I take this suspicion seriously and try to disentangle religion from the ethics of memory as far as it can safely and sensibly be defended. Conflating an ethics of memory with religion is my first worry, though by no means my ...
... Chapters As I indicated in my Preface, the first chapter in this book deals with the implications of remembering personal names as well as remembering persons from our past. As we get older we know very well how troubling this kind of ...
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1 Intensive Care | 18 |
2 Past Continuous | 48 |
3 The Kernel | 84 |
4 Emotions Recollected | 107 |
5 A Moral Witness | 147 |
6 Forgiving and Forgetting | 183 |
Notes | 211 |
Index | 221 |