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The Moral Demands of Memory.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (386 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780511384974
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 170
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Contents:
COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 MEMORY AS A SUBJECT OF EVALUATIVE INQUIRY -- 1. ELEMENTS OF A MORALITY OR ETHICS OF MEMORY -- 2. NIETZSCHE ON THE MISUSES OF MEMORY -- (a) Monumental history and the influence of the past -- (b) Antiquarian history and nostalgia -- (c) The moderating role of critical history -- 3. A SURFEIT OF MEMORY -- 4. THE DYNAMIC OF REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING -- (a) Collective memory -- (b) Personal memory -- 5. MEMORY AS OBLIGATION -- 6. RESPONSIBILITIES OF REMEMBRANCE AND TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PAST -- 7. MEMORY, IDENTITY, AND RESPONSIBILITY -- 8. GOING FORWARD -- NOTES -- 2 TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONE'S OWN PAST -- 1. A CASE EXAMPLE -- 2. SOME PRELIMINARIES ABOUT TAKING RESPONSIBILITY -- 3. THREE ELEMENTS OF TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PAST -- (a) Retrospective construction of meaning -- (b) Appropriation -- (c) Thematization -- (d) Interconnections -- 4. APPLYING THE ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY -- 5. WHY WE DON'T TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR PAST -- 6. HUMILITY AND TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONE'S PAST -- 7. SELF-FORGIVENESS AND TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONE'S PAST -- 8. CONCLUDING THOUGHTS ON MEMORY -- NOTES -- 3 DOING JUSTICE TO THE PAST -- 1. A HISTORICAL EXAMPLE: THE TULSA RACE RIOT OF 1921 -- 2. TYPES OF GROUPS -- (a) Collections -- (b) Socially unified groups and their importance -- (c) Organized groups -- 3. COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PAST WRONGDOING -- (a) Senses of collective responsibility -- (b) Group identity over time -- (c) A note about "different people choices" and groups -- 4. WRONGING GROUPS -- 5. MAKING SENSE OF THE PAST: RECONSTRUCTION AND COMPLICATIONS -- 6. RESPONSIBILITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GROUP IDENTITY -- 7. COLLECTIVE GUILT AND SHAME -- 8. DOING JUSTICE TO THE PAST: THE ROLE OF MEMORY.
(a) Memory and the demand for recognition -- (b) Symbolic reparation and memory -- NOTES -- 4 ETHICS, TRUTH, AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 1. MEMORY AND HISTORY/HISTORY AND MYTH -- 2. COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND INDIVIDUAL MEMORY -- 3. HISTORY, MYTH, AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 4. THE INTERPLAY OF HISTORY AND MYTH IN COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 5. MARGALIT ON THE ETHICS AND MORALITY OF MEMORY -- 6. MORALITY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 7. ETHICS AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 8. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 5 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF REMEMBRANCE -- 1. RAISING THE ISSUES: ABSENT FRIENDS, DECEASED FRIENDS -- 2. QUALITIES AND MODES OF REMEMBERING THE DEAD -- 3. EVALUATIVE ATTITUDES AND REMEMBERING THE DEAD: THE CASE OF LOVE -- 4. CONSEQUENTIALISM AND AN EXPRESSIVE ACCOUNT -- (a) Consequentialism -- (b) Expressivism -- 5. THE MORAL IMPERATIVE TO REMEMBER: THREE ARGUMENTS -- (a) The rescue from insignificance view -- (b) The enduring duties view -- (c) The reciprocity view -- (d) The three views in tandem -- 6. MOURNING AND THE DEATH OF PARENTS -- 7. RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE -- 8. HOW LONG WE MUST REMEMBER -- NOTES -- 6 MEMORY AND BEARING WITNESS -- 1. WITNESSING IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD -- 2. THE CONCEPT OF BEARING WITNESS -- (a) Testimonial authority -- (b) Address and audience -- (c) The need for testimony -- 3. SOME TYPOLOGICAL REMARKS -- (a) Bearing witness to right and wrong, good and bad -- (b) The witness' relationship to wrongdoing -- (c) Bearing witness to one's convictions -- 4. THE SYMBOLIC VALUE OF BEARING WITNESS -- 5. WITNESSING, SELF-REPRESENTATION, AND MORAL AGENCY -- 6. PROXIES AND THE AUTHORITY TO BEAR WITNESS -- 7. FINAL THOUGHTS -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
Summary: Jeffrey Blustein provides a rigorous account of a morality of memory. 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.
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COVER -- HALF-TITLE -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- DEDICATION -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE -- 1 MEMORY AS A SUBJECT OF EVALUATIVE INQUIRY -- 1. ELEMENTS OF A MORALITY OR ETHICS OF MEMORY -- 2. NIETZSCHE ON THE MISUSES OF MEMORY -- (a) Monumental history and the influence of the past -- (b) Antiquarian history and nostalgia -- (c) The moderating role of critical history -- 3. A SURFEIT OF MEMORY -- 4. THE DYNAMIC OF REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING -- (a) Collective memory -- (b) Personal memory -- 5. MEMORY AS OBLIGATION -- 6. RESPONSIBILITIES OF REMEMBRANCE AND TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PAST -- 7. MEMORY, IDENTITY, AND RESPONSIBILITY -- 8. GOING FORWARD -- NOTES -- 2 TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONE'S OWN PAST -- 1. A CASE EXAMPLE -- 2. SOME PRELIMINARIES ABOUT TAKING RESPONSIBILITY -- 3. THREE ELEMENTS OF TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PAST -- (a) Retrospective construction of meaning -- (b) Appropriation -- (c) Thematization -- (d) Interconnections -- 4. APPLYING THE ANALYSIS: THE CASE OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY -- 5. WHY WE DON'T TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR PAST -- 6. HUMILITY AND TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONE'S PAST -- 7. SELF-FORGIVENESS AND TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONE'S PAST -- 8. CONCLUDING THOUGHTS ON MEMORY -- NOTES -- 3 DOING JUSTICE TO THE PAST -- 1. A HISTORICAL EXAMPLE: THE TULSA RACE RIOT OF 1921 -- 2. TYPES OF GROUPS -- (a) Collections -- (b) Socially unified groups and their importance -- (c) Organized groups -- 3. COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR PAST WRONGDOING -- (a) Senses of collective responsibility -- (b) Group identity over time -- (c) A note about "different people choices" and groups -- 4. WRONGING GROUPS -- 5. MAKING SENSE OF THE PAST: RECONSTRUCTION AND COMPLICATIONS -- 6. RESPONSIBILITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GROUP IDENTITY -- 7. COLLECTIVE GUILT AND SHAME -- 8. DOING JUSTICE TO THE PAST: THE ROLE OF MEMORY.

(a) Memory and the demand for recognition -- (b) Symbolic reparation and memory -- NOTES -- 4 ETHICS, TRUTH, AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 1. MEMORY AND HISTORY/HISTORY AND MYTH -- 2. COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND INDIVIDUAL MEMORY -- 3. HISTORY, MYTH, AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 4. THE INTERPLAY OF HISTORY AND MYTH IN COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 5. MARGALIT ON THE ETHICS AND MORALITY OF MEMORY -- 6. MORALITY AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 7. ETHICS AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 8. CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 5 THE RESPONSIBILITY OF REMEMBRANCE -- 1. RAISING THE ISSUES: ABSENT FRIENDS, DECEASED FRIENDS -- 2. QUALITIES AND MODES OF REMEMBERING THE DEAD -- 3. EVALUATIVE ATTITUDES AND REMEMBERING THE DEAD: THE CASE OF LOVE -- 4. CONSEQUENTIALISM AND AN EXPRESSIVE ACCOUNT -- (a) Consequentialism -- (b) Expressivism -- 5. THE MORAL IMPERATIVE TO REMEMBER: THREE ARGUMENTS -- (a) The rescue from insignificance view -- (b) The enduring duties view -- (c) The reciprocity view -- (d) The three views in tandem -- 6. MOURNING AND THE DEATH OF PARENTS -- 7. RITUALS OF REMEMBRANCE -- 8. HOW LONG WE MUST REMEMBER -- NOTES -- 6 MEMORY AND BEARING WITNESS -- 1. WITNESSING IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD -- 2. THE CONCEPT OF BEARING WITNESS -- (a) Testimonial authority -- (b) Address and audience -- (c) The need for testimony -- 3. SOME TYPOLOGICAL REMARKS -- (a) Bearing witness to right and wrong, good and bad -- (b) The witness' relationship to wrongdoing -- (c) Bearing witness to one's convictions -- 4. THE SYMBOLIC VALUE OF BEARING WITNESS -- 5. WITNESSING, SELF-REPRESENTATION, AND MORAL AGENCY -- 6. PROXIES AND THE AUTHORITY TO BEAR WITNESS -- 7. FINAL THOUGHTS -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

Jeffrey Blustein provides a rigorous account of a morality of memory. 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.

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