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