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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... remember that they referred to it with the traditional term destruction (hakhurban)—the way Jews traditionally referred to the destruction of the Temple by the Romans, who then drove them into exile. As I reconstruct my parents' debate ...
... remember; or, for that matter, to forget and forgive. There are two styles of philosophers: e.g. philosophers and i.e. philosophers—illustrators and explicators. Illustra- tors trust, first and foremost, striking examples, in contrast ...
... remember people and events from the past? If we are, what is the nature of this obligation? Are remem- bering and forgetting proper subjects of moral praise or blame? Who are the “we” who may be obligated to re- member: the collective ...
... by definition, advocates loyalty to the past. It is the business of the ethics of memory to work out what this loyalty consists of in terms of remembering the past. My question is whether doctrines 10 the ethics of memory.
Avishai Margalit. terms of remembering the past. My question is whether doctrines and attitudes that (unlike traditionalism) are oriented toward the future rather than the past can and should be concerned with the ethics of memory. This ...
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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 |