http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/803432721

Paul Ricoeur's pedagogy of pardon : a narrative theory of memory and forgetting

Where conflict arises from the clash of cultures, memory also becomes a tool to help resolve and heal past wounds. € Ricoeur provides a hermeneutical key to examine conflicting narratives so that some shared truths can be arrived at in order to begin afresh. € As the many Truth Commissions around the world illustrate; revisiting the past has a positive benefit in steering history in a new direction after protracted violence. A second deeper strand in the book is the connection between Paul Ricoeur and John Paul II. € Both lived through the worst period of modern European history.

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