{"product_id":"the-ethics-of-memory","title":"The Ethics of Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003eMuch of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns the politics of memory. In a book that asks  \"Is there an ethics of memory?\" Avishai Margalit addresses a separate  perhaps more pressing  set of concerns.  The idea he pursues is that the past  connecting people to each other  makes possible the kinds of \"thick\" relations we can call truly ethical. Thick relations  he argues  are those that we have with family and friends  lovers and neighbors  our tribe and our nation--and they are all dependent on shared memories. But we also have \"thin\" relations with total strangers  people with whom we have nothing in common except our common humanity. A central idea of the ethics of memory is that when radical evil attacks our shared humanity  we ought as human beings to remember the victims.  Margalits work offers a philosophy for our time  when  in the wake of overwhelming atrocities  memory can seem more crippling than liberating  a force more for revenge than for reconciliation. Morally powerful  deeply learned  and elegantly written  The Ethics of Memory draws on the resources of millennia of Western philosophy and religion to provide us with healing ideas that will engage all of us who care about the nature of our relations to others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984574083125,"sku":"ByrdShop_067400941X","price":41.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674009417.jpg?v=1770924670","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-ethics-of-memory","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}