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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together essays -- three of them previously unpublished -- on the epistemology, ethics, and politics of memory by the late feminist philosopher Sue Campbell.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, and is both an epistemic and an ethical achievement. The essays in Part II focus on the activities and practices through which we explore and negotiate the shared significance of our different recollections of the past, and the importance of sharing memory for constituting our identities. Views about self, identity, relation, and responsibility (all influenced by traditions in feminist philosophy) are examined through the lens of Campbell''s relational conception of memory. She argues that remaining faithful to our past sometimes requir
Trade ReviewChristine M. Koggel and Rockney Jacobsen's recent editorial work brings together a valuable selection of Sue Campbell's essays on the ethics, politics, and epistemology of remembering ... The two overall themes that make this book a distinguished philosophical contribution to the interdisciplinary study of memory are Campbell's carefully argued points of emphasis on the inherently (socially) embedded nature of recollection and the need for theorizing successful remembering. * Roxana Akhbari, Metapsychology *
Table of ContentsPreface ; Editors' Introduction ; Note on Sources ; Author's Introduction: The Second Voice: A Manifesto ; Part I. Our Faithfulness to the Past ; Chapter 1: Models of Minds and Memory Activities ; Chapter 2: Our Faithfulness to the Past: Reconstructing Memory Values ; Chapter 3: Memory, Truth, and the Search for Integrity ; Part II. Memory, Diversity and Solidarity ; Chapter 4: Inside the Frame of the Past: Memory, Diversity, and Solidarity ; Chapter 5: Memory, Reparation, and Relation: Starting in the Right Places ; Chapter 6: Remembering Who We Are: Responsibility and Resistant Identification ; Part III. Remembering for the Future ; Chapter 7: Remembering for the Future: Memory as a Lens on the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission ; Chapter 8: Challenges to Memory in Political Contexts: Recognizing Disrespectful Challenge
