By Avishai MARGALIT
ISBN-10: 067400941X
ISBN-13: 9780674009417
ISBN-10: 0674013786
ISBN-13: 9780674013780
Much of the serious present curiosity in collective reminiscence issues the politics of reminiscence. In a ebook that asks, "Is there an ethics of memory?" Avishai Margalit addresses a separate, might be extra urgent, set of issues.
The thought he pursues is that the earlier, connecting humans to one another, makes attainable the categories of "thick" family members we will name actually moral. Thick family members, he argues, are those who we've with friends and family, fanatics and associates, our tribe and our nation--and they're all depending on shared thoughts. yet we even have "thin" kinfolk with overall strangers, individuals with whom we've not anything in universal other than our universal humanity. A principal concept of the ethics of reminiscence is that after radical evil assaults our shared humanity, we ought as humans to recollect the sufferers.
Margalit's paintings bargains a philosophy for our time, whilst, within the wake of overwhelming atrocities, reminiscence can look extra crippling than releasing, a strength extra for revenge than for reconciliation. Morally robust, deeply discovered, and assuredly written, The Ethics of Memory attracts at the assets of millennia of Western philosophy and faith to supply us with therapeutic rules that may interact we all who care in regards to the nature of our relationships to others.
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