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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)
- compromise
- slavery
- Michael Walzer
- Jahiliyya
- Willy Brandt
- Marshal Petain
- betrayal
- shared history
- community of memory
- secrecy
- Reconstruction
- hypocrisy
- collective memory
- rotten compromises
- racism
- duty of memory
- Josephus Flavius
- read
- Avishai Margalit
- memory
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