Our Faithfulness to the Past: The Ethics and Politics of Memory

by Sue Campbell

Book Overview

This volume brings together essays -- three of them previously unpublished -- on the epistemology, ethics, and politics of memory by the late feminist philosopher Sue Campbell.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. Campbell argues that being faithful to the past requires both accuracy and integrity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199376948
• ISBN13: 9780199376940
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"