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TAKING WRONGS SERIOUSLY
APOLOGIES AND RECONCILIATION |
| By: |
Elazar Barkan (Editor), Alexander Karn (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£116.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0804752249 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780804752244 |
| Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 March, 2006 |
| Series: |
Cultural Sitings |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
This multi-disciplinary collection examines the recent wave of political apologies for acts of past injustice. |
| Synopsis: |
Since the end of the Cold War, and particularly during the last fifteen years, the human need to amend immoral wrongs has been expressed in political discourse as a propensity to apologize for acts of past injustice. Can apology, by bringing closure to conflicts and by opening new possibilities for communication and mutual understanding, cultivate reconciliation and ameliorate the present? Taking Wrongs Seriously examines the increasingly potent role of apology as a social force. Contributors explore in a comparative and interdisciplinary framework the role and function-as well as the limitations-that apology has in promoting dialogue, tolerance, and cooperation between groups confronting one another over past injustices. Fourteen essays draw on a variety of disciplines-including history, international relations, transition studies, sociology, legal studies, psychology, and religion-to explore the real and symbolic transactions that lie at the core of apology. There is no similar introductory text on this subject that includes multiple disciplinary perspectives as well as such a wide geographical and historical spectrum of case studies. |
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US |
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Stanford University Press |
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Non-returnable |
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