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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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- collective memory
- Marshal Petain
- Jahiliyya
- rotten compromises
- The Ethics of Memory (2002)
- compromise
- Josephus Flavius
- community of memory
- read
- Avishai Margalit
- Michael Walzer
- memory
- duty of memory
- betrayal
- Willy Brandt
- Reconstruction
- hypocrisy
- secrecy
- slavery
- shared history
- racism
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