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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blustein, Jeffrey, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forgiveness.

Memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

Remembering wrongdoing in personal and public life

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 23, 2014).

Other Format:

Print version