Communities of Memory
On Witness, Identity, and Justice
Memory has fueled merciless, violent strife, and it has been at the core of reconciliation and reconstruction. It has been used to justify great crimes, and yet it is central to the pursuit of justice. In these and more everyday ways, we live surrounded by memory, individual and social: in our habits, our names, the places where we live, street names, libraries, archives, and our citizenship, institutions, and laws. Still, we wonder what to make of memory and its gifts, though sometimes we are hardly even certain that they are gifts. Of the many chambers in this vast palace, I mean to ask particularly after the place of memory in politics, in…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5017-2686-6
- EAN: 9781501726866
- Produktnummer: 27663401
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 20'609 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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W. James Booth
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