The Kundera Case and the Neurotic Collective Memory of Postcommunism Přibáň, Jiří Author aut Text xx# 2018 Verfassungsblog 2018-01-12 eng
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 History is a battlefield of present politics. Dealing with the past reveals the power struggles and strategies of the present. Past events are both denounced and glorified by political agents of the present hoping to weaken their enemies. However, the past also contains injustices and political crimes and any decision not to deal with them in the present only reaffirms them and confirms the unjust status of their victims. Not to contend with the past injustices thus compromises the legitimacy of the present system of positive law. To deal, or not to deal with the past, indeed, is an important question. However, it is also inseparable from questions of which past is to be dealt with and how. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Přibáň, Jiří 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-kundera-case-and-the-neurotic-collective-memory-of-postcommunism/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20180112-171524 180112 10.17176/20180112-171524 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)