Political Reconciliation

Andrew Schaap

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9780415356800
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134249657
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Since the end of the Cold War, the concept of reconciliation has emerged as a central term of political discourse within societies divided by a history of political violence. Reconciliation has been promoted as a way of reckoning with the legacy of past wrongs while opening the way for community in the future. This book examines the issues of transitional justice in the context of contemporary debates in political theory concerning the nature of 'the political'. Bringing together research on transitional justice and political theory, the author argues that if we are to talk of reconciliation in politics we need to think about it in a fundamentally different way than is commonly presupposed; as agonistic rather than restorative.

Index

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) 100
• about this book
  • political theory of reconciliation 4–5
  • reflections on the work of Arendt and the literature of transitional justice xi–xii
  • synopses of chapters 4–8
• Ackerman, Bruce 31, 90–91, 97–98
• action
  • agonistic striving of 67, 69
  • boundlessness of risk in 65–66, 123
  • irreversibility of 103
  • meaningfulness of 66
  • promise and risk of 63–69, 148, 149
  • promise inherent in, 95
  • self-revelation through 66
• Adenauer, Konrad, 123 125
• Adorno, T.W. 54, 140
• aesthetic judgement, 70 73
• agonism 67, 69
• alienation 88, 122
• American Declaration of Independence, 95 153
• American Revolution 93, 95
• amnesia 113
• amnesty 107, 112–116
• anamnesis 113
• anti-political moment of recognition 47–50, 51
• apology, reparation and passage of time 127–131
• appearances and worldliness 60–61
• Arendt, Hannah xii, 1–4, 6–8, 22–23, 55, 57–74, 77, 79–83, 85, 88–90, 91–97, 101, 103, 109–111, 115, 117–118, 120–123, 125–127, 134–138, 141–142, 147, 152–153, 154, 155–156 see also worldliness
• Asmal, Kader 19–20
• aspirational forgiveness 106
• atonement 13
• Auschwitz 1–2
• Australia xi–xii, 12, 52–53, 87, 99–101, 127–129
• authenticity and recognition 43, 44, 47, 48–49, 82
• authority and constitution, 95 96
• autonomy 122

• Bamm, Peter Bankowski, Zenon 156, 123, 131, 1...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Series
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Reconciliation and Politics
• Toleration
• Recognition
• Worldliness
• Political Reconciliation
• Constitution
• Forgiveness
• Responsibility
• Remembrance
• Conclusion
• References
• Notes
• Index