Title | Communities of Memory: On Identity, Memory, and Debt |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 1999 |
Authors | W. James Booth |
Journal | The American Political Science Review |
Volume | 93 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | 249-263 |
ISSN | 00030554 |
Abstract | I take up the question of political identity as the continuity of a community across time. In particular, I examine what it means to think of a political community as the subject of attribution across generations, that is, what is meant when it is made the bearer of responsibility for the past and a custodian of the future. In doing that, I focus on identity, memory, and responsibility and discuss that cluster of concepts using as an illustrative example the idea of constitutional patriotism and its relationship to the past. |
URL | http://www.jstor.org/stable/2585394 |
DOI | 10.2307/2585394 |
Short Title | Communities of Memory |