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