ABSTRACT
This chapter concerns the debate between the ethics and aesthetics of historiography. The discussion connects memory, story, and transgenerational life. Grounded in the conclusions of the previous discussions, this chapter opens the customary debate between the ethics and aesthetics of storytelling, to which historical narration and writing is often seen to belong. I forward a reading of Aristotle’s Poetics and discuss literary critics and hermeneutic scholars who have centered many of their arguments on themes derived from Aristotle’s idea of literary mimesis.
