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The author claims that compromise is justified for the sake of peace, sometimes even at the expense of justice.
Could Avishai Margalit's idea of rotten compromise be applied to the concept of the "lost cause" and portions of the disappearance of Reconstruction following the Civil War? Are we now reckoning with the actual fallout of post-Civil War politics in the new millennium?
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- The Ethics of Memory (2002)
- Willy Brandt
- Marshal Petain
- Michael Walzer
- Josephus Flavius
- slavery
- Reconstruction
- racism
- read
- hypocrisy
- compromise
- betrayal
- rotten compromises
- shared history
- Avishai Margalit
- secrecy
- memory
- community of memory
- collective memory
- duty of memory
- Jahiliyya
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