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Sins of the Parents
Brian Weiner
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Description for Sins of the Parents
Paperback. Focuses on whether the present-day United States government should apologize for past wrongs done in its name. Series: Politics, History, & Social Change. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
Debates have swirled around the question of national forgiveness for the past fifty years. Using two examples-the land claims of the Oneida Indians and the claims for reparations to Japanese Americans interned during World War II-Brian Weiner suggests a way of thinking about national misdeeds. Arguing beyond collective \u0022innocence\u0022 or \u0022guilt,\u0022 Sins of the Parents offers a model of collective responsibility to deal with past wrongs in such a way as to reinvigorate our notion of citizenship. Drawing upon the writings of Abraham Lincoln and Hannah Arendt, Weiner offers a definition of political responsibility that at once defines citizenship ... Read more
Debates have swirled around the question of national forgiveness for the past fifty years. Using two examples-the land claims of the Oneida Indians and the claims for reparations to Japanese Americans interned during World War II-Brian Weiner suggests a way of thinking about national misdeeds. Arguing beyond collective \u0022innocence\u0022 or \u0022guilt,\u0022 Sins of the Parents offers a model of collective responsibility to deal with past wrongs in such a way as to reinvigorate our notion of citizenship. Drawing upon the writings of Abraham Lincoln and Hannah Arendt, Weiner offers a definition of political responsibility that at once defines citizenship ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Politics, History, & Social Change
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781592133185
SKU
V9781592133185
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About Brian Weiner
Brian A. Weiner is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco.
Reviews for Sins of the Parents
"Sins of the Parents grapples with the problem of intergenerational responsibility in the context of American political history. It is a work that is sensitive to the contested uses of the past, sophisticated in its deployment of an Arendtian vision of forgiveness, and unabashed in its project of expanding our conception of citizenship."-P.E. Digeser, author of Political Forgiveness