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Our faithfulness to the past: the ethics and politics of memory/ Sue Campbell; ed by Christine M. Koggel and Rockney Jacobsen.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Studies in feminist philosophyPublication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.Description: xix, 222pISBN:
  • 9780199376940
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 128.3 Q4
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Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Editors' Introduction -- Note on Sources -- Author's Introduction: The Second Voice: A Manifesto -- Part I. Our Faithfulness to the Past -- Chapter 1: Models of Minds and Memory Activities -- Chapter 2: Our Faithfulness to the Past: Reconstructing Memory Values -- Chapter 3: Memory, Truth, and the Search for Integrity -- Part II. Memory, Diversity and Solidarity -- Chapter 4: Inside the Frame of the Past: Memory, Diversity, and Solidarity -- Chapter 5: Memory, Reparation, and Relation: Starting in the Right Places -- Chapter 6: Remembering Who We Are: Responsibility and Resistant Identification -- Part III. Remembering for the Future -- Chapter 7: Remembering for the Future: Memory as a Lens on the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- Chapter 8: Challenges to Memory in Political Contexts: Recognizing Disrespectful Challenge.
Summary: "This volume brings together essays - three of them previously unpublished - on the epistemology, ethics, and politics of memory by the late feminist philosopher Sue Campbell. The essays in Part I diagnose contemporary skepticism about personal memory, and develop an account of good remembering that is better suited to contemporary (reconstructive) theories of memory. The essays in Part II focus on the activities and practices through which we explore and negotiate the shared significance of our different recollections of the past, and the importance of sharing memory for constituting our identities. In Part III, Campbell uses her relational theory of memory to address the challenges of sharing memory and renewing selves in contexts that are fractured by moral and political difference, especially those arising from a history of injustice and oppression"--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-217) and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Editors' Introduction -- Note on Sources -- Author's Introduction: The Second Voice: A Manifesto -- Part I. Our Faithfulness to the Past -- Chapter 1: Models of Minds and Memory Activities -- Chapter 2: Our Faithfulness to the Past: Reconstructing Memory Values -- Chapter 3: Memory, Truth, and the Search for Integrity -- Part II. Memory, Diversity and Solidarity -- Chapter 4: Inside the Frame of the Past: Memory, Diversity, and Solidarity -- Chapter 5: Memory, Reparation, and Relation: Starting in the Right Places -- Chapter 6: Remembering Who We Are: Responsibility and Resistant Identification -- Part III. Remembering for the Future -- Chapter 7: Remembering for the Future: Memory as a Lens on the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- Chapter 8: Challenges to Memory in Political Contexts: Recognizing Disrespectful Challenge.

"This volume brings together essays - three of them previously unpublished - on the epistemology, ethics, and politics of memory by the late feminist philosopher Sue Campbell. The essays in Part I diagnose contemporary skepticism about personal memory, and develop an account of good remembering that is better suited to contemporary (reconstructive) theories of memory. The essays in Part II focus on the activities and practices through which we explore and negotiate the shared significance of our different recollections of the past, and the importance of sharing memory for constituting our identities. In Part III, Campbell uses her relational theory of memory to address the challenges of sharing memory and renewing selves in contexts that are fractured by moral and political difference, especially those arising from a history of injustice and oppression"--

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