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Mihai / Thaler

On the Uses and Abuses of Political Apologies

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-137-34371-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK
Erscheinungstermin: 08.07.2014
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Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past injustices, this probes the various functions they fulfil within contemporary democracies. Cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research and insightful philosophical analyses are supplemented by real-life case studies, providing a normative and balanced account of states saying 'sorry'.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781137343710
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-137-34371-0
  • Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK
  • Erscheinungstermin: 08.07.2014
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 2014. Auflage 2014
  • Serie: Rhetoric, Politics and Society
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 4287 g
  • Seiten: 258
  • Format (B x H x T): 142 x 216 x 23 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

1. Introduction; Mihaela Mihai and Mathias Thaler PART I: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS 2. Beyond the Ideal Political Apology; Alice MacLachlan 3. Political Apologies and Categorical Apologies; Nick Smith PART II: RITES AND RITUALS OF REGRET 4. From Mea Culpa to Nostra Culpa: A Reparative Apology from the Catholic Church?; Danielle Celemajer 5. The Power of Ritual Ceremonies in State Apologies: An Empirical Analysis of the Bilateral Polish-Russian Commemoration Ceremony in Katyn in 2010; Michel-Andre Horelt 6. Confessing the Holocaust: The Evolution of German Guilt; Stefan Engert PART III CHALLENGING CASES 7. Revisiting the 'Membership Theory of Apologies': Apology Politics in Australia and Canada; Melissa Nobles 8. The Canadian Apology to Indigenous Residential School Survivors: A Case Study of Re-Negotiation of Social Relations; Neil Funk-Unrau 9. What Makes a State Apology Authoritative? Lessons from Post-Authoritarian Brazil; Nina Schneider PART IV: OBSTACLES AND LIMITATIONS 10. The Apology in Democracies: Reflections on the Challenges of Competing Goods, Citizenship, Nationalism and Pluralist Politics; Michael Cunningham 11. An Apology for Public Apologies; Juan Espindola 12. Reasoning Like a State: Integration and the Limits of Official Regret; Cindy Holder