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The Moral Demands of Memory Jeffrey Blustein (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)

The Moral Demands of Memory By Jeffrey Blustein (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)

The Moral Demands of Memory by Jeffrey Blustein (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)


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Jeffrey Blustein provides a rigorous account of a morality of memory. He offers a novel examination of memory and our relations to people and events from our past, the ways in which memory is preserved and transmitted, and the moral responsibilities associated with it.

The Moral Demands of Memory Summary

The Moral Demands of Memory by Jeffrey Blustein (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)

Despite an explosion of studies on memory in historical and cultural studies, there is relatively little in moral philosophy on this subject. In this book, Jeffrey Blustein provides a systematic and philosophically rigorous account of a morality of memory. Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and humanistic literatures, he offers a novel examination of memory and our relations to people and events from our past, the ways in which memory is preserved and transmitted, and the moral responsibilities associated with it. Blustein treats topics of responsibility for one's own past; historical injustice and the role of memory in doing justice to the past; the relationship of collective memory to history and identity; collective and individual obligations to remember those who have died, including those who are dear to us; and the moral significance of bearing witness.

The Moral Demands of Memory Reviews

'This is a rigorous and weighty work of the moral philosophy of memory. It encourages reflection on why we remember what we do and the wider purposes that our memories serve. ... therapists reading this book will gain valuable insights which may be of benefit to their patients given the central role of memories in the therapeutic encounter ...' Journal of Mental Health

About Jeffrey Blustein (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)

Jeffrey Blustein is Professor of Bioethics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and Adjunct Associate Professor at Barnard College. He is the author of Parents and Children: The Ethics of the Family; Care and Commitment: Taking the Personal Point of View; and most recently, Ethics for Health Care Organizations and Handbook for Health Care Ethics Committees (both with Linda Farber Post and Nancy Dubler). He has published numerous articles in journals such as Metaphilosophy, Dialogue, the Journal of Social Philosophy, the Journal of Value Inquiry and Bioethics.

Table of Contents

1. Memory as a subject of evaluative inquiry; 2. Taking responsibility for one's own past; 3. Doing justice to the past; 4. Ethics, truth, and collective memory; 5. The responsibility of remembrance; 6. Memory and bearing witness.

Additional information

NLS9780521709729
9780521709729
0521709725
The Moral Demands of Memory by Jeffrey Blustein (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2008-03-03
386
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