The moral demands of memory / / Jeffrey Blustein [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Blustein Jeffrey
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 170
• Soggetto topico: Memory (Philosophy); Ethics; Conduct of life
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-366) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The moral demands of memory
• ISBN: 1-107-18584-X; 1-281-25503-3; 9786611255039; 0-511-81861-0; 0-511-38781-4; 0-511-38680-X; 0-511-38497-1; 0-511-38312-6; 0-511-38880-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820721203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II