Historical redress : must we pay for the past? /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vernon, Richard, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, England ; New York : Continuum, 2012.
Colección:Think now.
Temas:
Reparations for historical injustices > Philosophy.
Justice (Philosophy)
Responsibility > Philosophy.
Responsibility.
Réparations des crimes de l'histoire > Philosophie.
Justice (Philosophie)
Responsabilité.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Does the past have rights?
  • Why rights matter
  • The testamentary model
  • Our interests survive us
  • Can the dead be harmed?
  • Posthumous rights and cold cases
  • The 'too abstract' objection
  • 2 Who benefits?
  • Does anyone benefit?
  • Does injustice pay?
  • Baseline issues
  • Do benefits create duties?
  • Unjust Enrichment
  • Is redress the right response?
  • 3 What memory calls for
  • Kinds of memory
  • What truth commissions can do
  • Public apology
  • From apology to identity
  • 4 Because we are who we are
  • Relationship terms
  • Nation, or state?
  • Complicity
  • Political continuity
  • 5 Back to the future
  • Inherited wrongs
  • The lynching of Louis Sam
  • Why history matters
  • Ants and grasshoppers
  • On clarity.

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