| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-366) and index. |
| Contents |
Memory as a subject of evaluative inquiry -- Taking responsibility for one's own past -- Doing justice to the past -- Ethics, truth, and collective memory -- The responsibility of remembrance -- Memory and bearing witness. |
| Summary |
Jeffrey Blustein provides a rigorous account of a morality of memory. "Despite an explosion of studies on memory in historical and cultural studies, there is relatively little in moral philosophy on this subject. In this book, Jeffrey Blustein provides a systematic and philosophically rigorous account of a morality of memory. Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and humanistic literatures, he offers a novel examination of memory and our relations to people and events from our past, the ways in which memory is preserved and transmitted, and the moral responsibilities associated with it. Blustein treats topics of responsibility for one's own past; historical injustice and the role of memory in doing justice to the past; the relationship of collective memory to history and identity; collective and individual obligations to remember those who have died, including those who are dear to us; and the moral significance of bearing witness. Relationships between the operations of personal and collective memory, and between the moral responsibilities attached to each, are highlighted and this discussion ties together the various strands of argument in a unified framework"--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Memory (Philosophy)
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Memory (Philosophy) |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Conduct of life.
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Conduct of life. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blustein, Jeffrey. Moral demands of memory. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 (DLC) 2007017358 |
| ISBN |
0511387814 (electronic book) |
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9780511388804 (electronic book) |
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0511388802 (electronic book) |
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9780511387814 (electronic book) |
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9780511818615 (electronic book) |
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0511818610 (electronic book) |
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052188330X (Cloth) |
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0521709725 (Paper) |
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9780521883306 (hardback) |
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9780521709729 (paperback) |
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