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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... truth about reality as the key to man's salva- tion. And yet the Gnostic teaching that the world is a prison and the body a prison cell is a metaphor gone wild. Gnostic writers competed with one another in add- ing more and more walls ...
... truth in the case of the individual but the healing power of knowing the truth in the case of com- munal memories. Crude as it may be, the image of the memory-prison is relatively new with respect to collective memory. According to this ...
Avishai Margalit. There is a very good moral reason to seek truth and, even better, to seek reconciliation. But the idea that truth by it- self will bring about reconciliation is a doubtful empirical assumption, based on the memory ...
... truth in this crude account of the clash between nondemocratic and democratic regimes, but it is by no means the whole truth. Constitutional democracies, for example, anchor the source of their legitimacy not only in current election ...
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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 |