Nahshon Perez

Freedom from Past Injustices

A Critical Evaluation of Claims for Inter-Generational Reparations

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Produktbeschreibung

Should contemporary citizens provide material redress to right past wrongs? There is a widespread belief that contemporary citizens should take responsibility for rectifying past wrongs. Nahshon Perez challenges this view, questioning attempts to aggregate dead wrongdoers with living people, and examining ideas of intergenerational collective responsibility with great suspicion. He distinguishes sharply between those who are indeed unjustly enriched by past wrongs, and those who are not. Looking at issues such as the distinction between compensation and restitution, counterfactuals and the non-identity problem, Perez concludes that individuals have the right to a clean slate, and that almost all of the pro-intergenerational redress arguments are unconvincing. Key Features: * Unique in claiming past wrongs should not be rectified * Analyses pro-intergenerational material redress arguments * Case studies include court cases from Australia, Northern Cyprus, the United States and Austria

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780748649624
• ISBN-10: 074864962X
• Artikelnr.: 40128314

Autorenporträt

Nahshon Perez is the Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. Author of articles in journals including Journal of Applied Philosophy, Social Theory and Practice and Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.