Taking Responsibility for the Past: The Future of European Governance

Injustices of the past cast a shadow on the present. They are the root cause of much...
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Author: Janna Thompson
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Taking Responsibility for the Past: The Future of European Governance by Thompson, Janna

Taking Responsibility for the Past: The Future of European Governance

$75.50

Taking Responsibility for the Past: The Future of European Governance

$75.50
Author: Janna Thompson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Injustices of the past cast a shadow on the present. They are the root cause of much harm, the source of enmity, and increasingly in recent times, the focus of demands for reparation. In this groundbreaking philosophical investigation, Janna Thompson examines the problems raised by reparative demands and puts forward a theory of reparation for historical injustices.


The book argues that the problems posed by historical injustices are best resolved by a reconciliatory view of reparative justice and an approach that explains how people acquire intergenerational responsibilities and entitlements. It ranges in its subject matter from the claims of indigenous people to land stolen from their ancestors to the growing movement for reparations for slavery. The book provides an original and convincing answer to the questions of how citizens can have reparative responsibilities for wrongs committed before they were born, and why descendants of victims may be entitled to compensation for historical injustices such as slavery. It also explains how members of nations can make recompense for injustices of the past without ignoring the inequities of the present.Taking Responsibility for the Past is a significant contribution to philosophical and legal debates about reparative justice, and at the same time an accessible and thought-provoking book for general readers.

Author: Janna Thompson
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 12/30/2002
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780745628851

About the Author
Janna Thompson is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at La Trobe University, Australia, and a Fellow of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.


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