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Paperback An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others Book

ISBN: 0226920453

ISBN13: 9780226920450

An Ethics of Remembering: History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others

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What are the ethical responsibilities of the historian in an age of mass murder and hyperreality? Can one be postmodern and still write history? For whom should history be written?

Edith Wyschogrod animates such questions through the passionate figure of the "heterological historian." Realizing the philosophical impossibility of ever recovering "what really happened," this historian nevertheless acknowledges a moral imperative to speak for...

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