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Communities of Memory: On Identity, Memory, and Debt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

W. James Booth
W. James Booth*
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Vanderbilt University
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Abstract

I take up the question of political identity as the continuity of a community across time. In particular, I examine what it means to think of a political community as the subject of attribution across generations, that is, what is meant when it is made the bearer of responsibility for the past and a custodian of the future. In doing that, I focus on identity, memory, and responsibility and discuss that cluster of concepts using as an illustrative example the idea of constitutional patriotism and its relationship to the past.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 93 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 249 - 263
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1999

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