Forgiveness and Remembrance: Remembering Wrongdoing in Personal and Public Life
Jeffrey M. Blustein
Abstract
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. At the same time, it explores the limitations of forgiveness in this regard. Memory is a second major focus of the book, both as implicated in forgivene ... More
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. At the same time, it explores the limitations of forgiveness in this regard. Memory is a second major focus of the book, both as implicated in forgiveness and as embodied in political processes of memorialization. It investigates the relationship of memorialization to transitional justice and to politically consequential interpersonal forgiveness and argues for both domestic and international responsibilities associated with memorialization.
Keywords:
domestic responsibilities,
interpersonal forgiveness,
international responsibilities,
memorialization,
moral psychology,
political reconciliation,
transitional justice
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199329397 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2014 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199329397.001.0001 |
