ABSTRACT
This chapter takes up some of the controversial themes of my book The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World (2006; 2nd ed. 2019) by engaging my critics. The main thrust of the book is to highlight the need not just to remember wrongs suffered, but to remember them rightly. One important strand of my argument – almost half of the book – concerns the place of “forgetting” (or, in my technical vocabulary, non-remembrance) in remembering rightly. Unsurprisingly, critics have focused on that issue. In the process of responding to critics, I explore issues like the (contested) truthfulness of the memories of wrongs suffered and committed, the character of possible redemption, and the investment many have in maintaining an everlasting memory of victimisation.
