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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154331203321

Autore

Blustein Jeffrey

Titolo

Forgiveness and remembrance : remembering wrongdoing in personal and public life / / Jeffrey M. Blustein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

155.9/2

Soggetti

Forgiveness

Memory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The moral psychology of interpersonal forgiveness -- Forgiveness and memory for wrongdoing -- Forgetting and forgiving revisited -- Forgiveness, commemoration, and restorative justice -- Commemoration and the noral values of remembrance -- The nature and value of memorialization as symbolic activity -- Human rights and the internationalization of memory.

Sommario/riassunto

The theme of this book is the complex moral psychology of forgiving and remembering in both personal and political contexts. It presents an expanded emotive account of interpersonal forgiveness that challenges a number of entrenched ideas that pervade standard philosophical approaches to it, and uses this account to illuminate how forgiveness can advance the goals of transitional justice and political reconciliation in post-conflict societies.