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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Avishai Margalit. and their worst fears during the war turned out to be true. Their huge families in Europe were destroyed. I do not re- member the actual words they used to talk about it, but I do remember that they referred to it with ...
... true reality outside. The formative prison metaphor in philosophy, how- ever, is Plato's parable of the cave. Here too the idea is that there is redemptive knowledge of the outside, a meta- physical knowledge of the ultimate true ...
... true that the only emotions which fit the democratic spirit are those di- rected toward the future, like hope. Democracy can and should include backward-looking emotions and attitudes as well, such as forgiveness and gratitude. The ...
... true. Memory, then, is knowledge from the past. It is not necessarily knowledge about the past. For example, I re- member that the Olympic games of 2008 are going to take place in Beijing. I heard about it in the past but the event is ...
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Contenido
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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 |