The moral demands of memory.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

From: Reference & Research Book News | Date: May 1, 2008 | Copyright information

9780521709729

The moral demands of memory.

Blustein, Jeffrey.

Cambridge U. Pr.

2008

372 pages

$24.99

Paperback

BD181

Blustein (bioethics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) moves beyond typical texts on memory to focus on moral philosophy. He offers a new approach, based on a broad range of philosophical and humanistic literatures, showing how memory is preserved and transmitted, particularly in the case of the self and the beloved dead. He begins by approaching memory as a subject of evaluative inquiry, building to the ...

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