Shaping the Past in the Transition to Democracy: Law, Memory, History and the Problem of Social Cohesion
This essay reflects on the experience of time as a factor of social cohesion and on its attributive force with respect to the configurations of law. In this regard; a decisive component is the simultaneity of regimes of historicity and the consequent dispute about the past. The article points out it...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Bologna
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Scienza & Politica |
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| Online Access: | https://scienzaepolitica.unibo.it/article/view/17745 |
| Summary: | This essay reflects on the experience of time as a factor of social cohesion and on its attributive force with respect to the configurations of law. In this regard; a decisive component is the simultaneity of regimes of historicity and the consequent dispute about the past. The article points out its prominence in the transitions from dictatorship to democracy and; in particular; in that of Italy in the second half of the 20th century. The discussion then turns to the dispute about the memory; to consider the question of the rights to truth; to restitution and to resentment; highlighting how history; if declined in a victimological perspective; can make an original contribution to understanding the problem of the justiciability of the past. |
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| ISSN: | 1590-4946 1825-9618 |