Communities of memory : on witness, identity, and justice / W. James Booth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Booth, William James.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory (Philosophy).

Memory--Political aspects.

Memory.

Identity politics.

Justice (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xv, 247 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2006.

Contents:

1 Identity and Memory 1

1.1 Identity, Time, and Memory 3

1.2 Identity, Persistence, and Ethics 4

1.3 Sources of Identity 8

1.4 Political Identity 13

1.5 Agency and the Accountability of Communities 16

1.6 Beyond Constitutional Continuity 19

1.6.1 The Memory of a Life-in-Common 21

1.6.2 Place and Memory 29

1.7 Memory and Absence 31

1.7.1 Tectonic Plates and Narratives 34

2 Memory, Accountability, and Political Community 39

2.1 State Memories 44

2.2 Boundaries 51

2.3 The Weight of the Past 53

2.4 Liberalism, Democracy, and Memory 55

2.5 The Burden of the Past and Revisable Identities 66

3 Bearing Witness 72

3.1 The Silence of Memory 73

3.2 Words, Silence, and Remembrance 79

3.3 Traces and Witnesses 87

3.4 Witnessing, Identity, and Justice 91

3.5 Bearing Witness to the Dead 97

3.5.1 The Citizen Dead 101

3.6 Memory, Place, and Politics 103

4 Witnessing and Justice 112

4.1 The Work of Memory-Justice 119

4.1.1 Retribution 121

4.1.2 Justice and the Memory of Truth 128

4.2 Memory, Identity, and the Limits of the Law 133

4.3 The Forgetting of Justice 143

5 Democratic Memory 164.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-231) and index.

ISBN:

0801444365

OCLC:

61748244

Publisher Number:

9780801444364