Owning one’s past
From historical knowledge to moral accountability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22342007 |
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| Authors | Andreea Deciu Ritivoi (0009-0003-3671-948X, Carnegie Mellon University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 120-133 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-29 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2210-4119 • E-ISSN: 2210-4127 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ld.7.1.08rit |
| OpenAlex | W2626713542 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
In this paper, I engage with the question of historical interpretation as a form of dialogue that can face an individual conscience with disturbing choices and decisions made at an earlier time, and the expectations we might have about a proper response. My paper draws on Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical ideas, as well as on a controversial part of his biography – his alleged involvement in the Petain circle in France in the early 1940s – to propose that instead of thinking about historical knowledge as reconstruction of another time, revelation of beliefs, or even exposure of intentions, we should consider it as a form of dialogical remembering that marks two joint features of subjectivity: fallibility and attestation. My paper does articulate a defense of Ricoeur’s philosophical conception of forgiveness, but offers neither an apology for nor an accusation on moral and political grounds
Conscience · Dialogical self · Epistemology · False accusation · Forgiveness · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Revelation · Sociology · Subjectivity · Theology · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law · Legal and cultural studies analysis · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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