"Memory has fueled merciless, violent strife, and it has been at
the core of reconciliation and reconstruction. It has been used to
justify great crimes, and yet it is central to the pursuit of
justice. In these and more everyday ways, we live surrounded by
memory, individual and social: in our habits, our names, the places
where we live, street names, libraries, archives, and our
citizenship, institutions, and laws. Still, we wonder what to make
of memory and its gifts, though sometimes we are hardly even
certain that they are gifts. Of the many chambers in this vast
palace, I mean to ask particularly after the place of memory in
politics, in the identity of political communities, and in their
practices of doing justice." from the PrefaceW. James Booth seeks
to understand the place of memory in the identity, ethics, and
practices of justice of political communities. Identity is, he
believes, a particular kind of continuity across time, one central
to the possibility of agency and responsibility, and memory plays a
central role in grounding that continuity. Memory-identity takes
two forms: a habitlike form, the deep presence of the past that is
part of a life-led-in-common; and a more fragile, vulnerable form
in which memory struggles to preserve identity through time notably
in bearing witness a form of memory work deeply bound up with the
identity of political communities. Booth argues that memory holds a
defining place in determining how justice is administered. Memory
is tied to the very possibility of an ethical community, one
responsible for its own past, able to make commitments for the
future, and driven to seek justice. "Underneath (and motivating)
the politics of memory, understood as contests over the writing of
history, over memorials, museums, and canons," he writes, "there
lies an intertwining of memory, identity, and justice." Communities
of Memory both argues for and maps out that intertwining."
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