On the uses and abuses of political apologies
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On the uses and abuses of political apologies
(Rhetoric, politics and society series)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
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  Niigata
  Toyama
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  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Okayama
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  Tokushima
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  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
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  United Kingdom
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 220-240) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Examining the complex nature of state apologies for past injustices, this probes the various functions they fulfil within contemporary democracies. Cutting-edge theoretical and empirical research and insightful philosophical analyses are supplemented by real-life case studies, providing a normative and balanced account of states saying 'sorry'.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Mihaela Mihai and Mathias Thaler PART I: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS 2. Beyond the Ideal Political Apology
- Alice MacLachlan 3. Political Apologies and Categorical Apologies
- Nick Smith PART II: RITES AND RITUALS OF REGRET 4. From Mea Culpa to Nostra Culpa: A Reparative Apology from the Catholic Church?
- Danielle Celemajer 5. The Power of Ritual Ceremonies in State Apologies: An Empirical Analysis of the Bilateral Polish-Russian Commemoration Ceremony in Katyn in 2010
- Michel-Andre Horelt 6. Confessing the Holocaust: The Evolution of German Guilt
- Stefan Engert PART III CHALLENGING CASES 7. Revisiting the 'Membership Theory of Apologies': Apology Politics in Australia and Canada
- Melissa Nobles 8. The Canadian Apology to Indigenous Residential School Survivors: A Case Study of Re-Negotiation of Social Relations
- Neil Funk-Unrau 9. What Makes a State Apology Authoritative? Lessons from Post-Authoritarian Brazil
- Nina Schneider PART IV: OBSTACLES AND LIMITATIONS 10. The Apology in Democracies: Reflections on the Challenges of Competing Goods, Citizenship, Nationalism and Pluralist Politics
- Michael Cunningham 11. An Apology for Public Apologies
- Juan Espindola 12. Reasoning Like a State: Integration and the Limits of Official Regret
- Cindy Holder
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