Memory, Historic Injustice, and Responsibility

ISBN-13: 9780367342210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 180 str.

W. James Booth

Opis

Grounded in political theory and guided by the literature on historical justice, Memory, Historic Injustice, and Responsibility restores the dead to their central place at the heart of our understanding of why and how to deal with past injustice.

Spis treści

1. Introduction. An archipelago of absence

2. Justice between Past and Present

3. Is the past a foreign country?

4. Doing justice to the dead

5. Conclusion

O autorze

W. James Booth is Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. His current research is focused on memory, identity and justice. Before coming to Vanderbilt, Booth was on the faculties of McGill University and Duke University. At Vanderbilt, Booth teaches courses in the history of political thought, religion and politics, and graduate and undergraduate seminars on topics in contemporary theory.