Communities of memory
Subtitle: on witness, identity, and justice
By: W. James Booth.
Publisher: Cornell University Press; Cornell University press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780801444364
Subjects: Memory (Philosophy); Memory -- Political aspects; Identity (Psychology) -- Political aspects; Justice (Philosophy)
Description: "W. James Booth seeks to understand the place of memory in the identity, ethics, and practices of justice of political communities. Identity is, he believes, a particular kind of continuity across time, one central to the possibility of agency and responsibility, and memory plays a central role in grounding that continuity." "Booth argues that memory holds a defining place in determining how justice is administered. Memory is tied to the very possibility of an ethical community, one responsible for its own past, able to make commitments for the future, and driven to seek justice."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.