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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... 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 all. From ...
... deal. I have tried to retain in this book the style and form of lectures, keeping learned references to a minimum. This by no means expresses a lack of gratitude to all those whose work I have read and who have influenced my thinking. I ...
... deal quite extensively with one such aspiration—that of Christianity. Religion is of relevance here in part because the whole enterprise of an ethics of memory, as well as the politics of memory, is under a cloud of accusation that it ...
... deal fairly in a newly born or regained democracy that has an undemocratic re- cent past—is deeply involved with the ethics of memory. Communities must make decisions and establish institutions that foster forgetting as much as ...
... deal too. Our legitimate fear of moralism is met, I believe, by a maneuver of divide and conquer. Divide the subject ... deals with the implications of remembering personal names as well as remembering persons from our past. As we get ...
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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 |