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Title: Commemoration and constriction
Authors: Lim, Chong-Ming
Keywords: Arts and Humanities
Issue Date: 2024
Source: Lim, C. (2024). Commemoration and constriction. Journal of Ethics. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10892-024-09503-7
Project: RS02/21 
Journal: Journal of Ethics 
Abstract: In analysing the problems with commemorative artefacts, philosophers have tended to focus on objectionable monuments that honour inappropriate subjects. The problems with such monuments, however, do not exhaust problems with a society’s public commemorative landscape – the totality of public commemorative artefacts in general, and the institutions involved in their creation and maintenance. I argue that a public commemorative landscape can implicate authoritative ideas, including stereotypes about people in virtue of their group membership. This contributes to what I term hermeneutical constriction – a situation in which people are given reason to rely on an authoritative subset of the totality of hermeneutical resources that they actually have access to. Critiquing and resisting these problems with a public commemorative landscape that contributes to hermeneutical constriction is fraught with difficulties. Attempts to do so render activists vulnerable to a range of serious criticisms.
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/181987
ISSN: 1382-4554
DOI: 10.1007/s10892-024-09503-7
Schools: School of Humanities 
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