Memory, History, Oblivion
Memory, History, Oblivion
This chapter addresses history, memory, and history-writing. In doing so, it highlights the necessity of the “carnal turn” by drawing our attention to suffering and the wounded of history, and to the consequent moral call to justice for these victims. The author reconnects hermeneutics to the moral imperative to remember the acting and suffering of living, carnal beings, pointing toward a hermeneutics of the suffering body. The focus on the wounded offers an important provocation to standard hermeneutic accounts of language and text by connecting hermeneutic concerns to carnal, lived, suffering bodies.
Keywords: Memory, History, Suffering, Wounds, Victims, Remembering
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