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Freedom from Past Injustices: A Critical Evaluation of Claims for Inter-Generational Reparations
Nahshon Perez
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Hardcover. Should contemporary citizens provide material redress to right past wrongs? This title concludes that individuals have the right to a clean slate, and that almost all of the pro-intergenerational redress arguments. It includes case studies such as:court cases from Australia, Northern Cyprus, the United States and Austria. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 240 x 16. Weight in Grams: 452. A Critical Evaluation of Claims for Inter-generational Reparations. 192 pages. Should contemporary citizens provide material redress to right past wrongs? This title concludes that individuals have the right to a clean slate, and that almost all of the pro-intergenerational redress arguments. It includes case studies such as:court cases from Australia, Northern Cyprus, the United States and Austria. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: JPA. Dimension: 156 x 240 x 16. Weight: 452.
Should contemporary citizens provide material redress to right past wrongs? There is a widespread belief that people today should take responsibility for rectifying the wrongs of their ancestors. Nahshon Perez challenges this view, questioning attempts to aggregate dead wrongdoers with living people. He distinguishes sharply between those who are indeed unjustly enriched by past wrongs, and those who are not. Perez concludes that individuals have the right to a clean slate, and that almost all of the pro-intergenerational redress arguments are unconvincing. This title is unique in claiming past wrongs should not be rectified. It analyses pro-intergenerational material redress arguments. ... Read more
Should contemporary citizens provide material redress to right past wrongs? There is a widespread belief that people today should take responsibility for rectifying the wrongs of their ancestors. Nahshon Perez challenges this view, questioning attempts to aggregate dead wrongdoers with living people. He distinguishes sharply between those who are indeed unjustly enriched by past wrongs, and those who are not. Perez concludes that individuals have the right to a clean slate, and that almost all of the pro-intergenerational redress arguments are unconvincing. This title is unique in claiming past wrongs should not be rectified. It analyses pro-intergenerational material redress arguments. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748649624
SKU
V9780748649624
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About Nahshon Perez
Nahshon Perez is the Schusterman Visiting Assistant Professor at the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University.
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