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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Oxford University Press 2014Description: viii, 344 pISBN:
  • 9780199329403
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 155.92 B5F6
Summary: Forgiveness and Remembrance examines the complex moral psychology of forgiving, remembering, and forgetting in personal and political contexts. It challenges a number of entrenched ideas that pervade standard philosophical approaches to interpersonal forgiveness and offers an original account of its moral psychology and the emotions involved in it. The volume also uses this account to illuminate the relationship of forgiveness to political reconciliation and restorative political practices in post-conflict societies. Memory is another central concern that flows from this, since forgiveness is tied to memory and to emotions associated with the memory of injury and injustice. In its political function, memory of wrongdoing — and of its victims — is embodied in processes of memorialization, such as the creation of monuments, commemorative ceremonies, and museums. The book casts light on the underexplored relationship of memorialization to transitional justice and politically consequential interpersonal forgiveness. It examines the symbolism and the symbolic moral significance of memorialization as a political practice, reflects on its relationship to forgiveness, and, finally, argues that there are moral responsibilities associated with memorialization that belong to international actors as well as to states. (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/forgiveness-and-remembrance-9780199329403?q=Forgiveness%20and%20remembrance&lang=en&cc=in#)
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Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction


PART I: FORGIVENESS AND MEMORY IN PERSONAL LIFE


Chapter 1: The Moral Psychology of Interpersonal Forgiveness

Chapter 2: Forgiveness and Memory for Wrongdoing

Chapter 3: Forgetting and Forgiving Revisited


PART II : FORGIVENESS AND MEMORY IN PUBLIC LIFE


Chapter 4: Forgiveness, Commemoration, and Restorative
Justice

Chapter 5: Commemoration and the Moral Values of Remembrance

Chapter 6: The Nature and Value of Memorialization as Symbolic Activity

Chapter 7: Human Rights and the Internationalization of Memory

Index


Forgiveness and Remembrance examines the complex moral psychology of forgiving, remembering, and forgetting in personal and political contexts. It challenges a number of entrenched ideas that pervade standard philosophical approaches to interpersonal forgiveness and offers an original account of its moral psychology and the emotions involved in it. The volume also uses this account to illuminate the relationship of forgiveness to political reconciliation and restorative political practices in post-conflict societies.

Memory is another central concern that flows from this, since forgiveness is tied to memory and to emotions associated with the memory of injury and injustice. In its political function, memory of wrongdoing — and of its victims — is embodied in processes of memorialization, such as the creation of monuments, commemorative ceremonies, and museums. The book casts light on the underexplored relationship of memorialization to transitional justice and politically consequential interpersonal forgiveness. It examines the symbolism and the symbolic moral significance of memorialization as a political practice, reflects on its relationship to forgiveness, and, finally, argues that there are moral responsibilities associated with memorialization that belong to international actors as well as to states.


(https://global.oup.com/academic/product/forgiveness-and-remembrance-9780199329403?q=Forgiveness%20and%20remembrance&lang=en&cc=in#)

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