Paul Ricoeur's pedagogy of pardon a narrative theory of memory and forgetting
Where conflict arises from the clash of cultures, memory also becomes a tool to help resolve and heal past wounds. Ricoeur provides a hermeneutical key to examine conflicting narratives so that some shared truths can be arrived at in order to begin afresh. As the many Truth Commissions around th...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum
c2009.
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Edition: | 1st ed |
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798434606719 |
Summary: | Where conflict arises from the clash of cultures, memory also becomes a tool to help resolve and heal past wounds. Ricoeur provides a hermeneutical key to examine conflicting narratives so that some shared truths can be arrived at in order to begin afresh. As the many Truth Commissions around the world illustrate; revisiting the past has a positive benefit in steering history in a new direction after protracted violence. A second deeper strand in the book is the connection between Paul Ricoeur and John Paul II. Both lived through the worst period of modern European history (Ricoeur a Pri |
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Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-173) and indexes. |
ISBN: | 9781282876866 9786612876868 9781441193360 |