PDF Charles Sumner and the Conscience of the North (American Biographical History Series) by Frederick J Blue in History

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The six essays that make up this compelling book view the long shadow of past guilt both as a uniquely German experience and as a global one. Bernhard Schlink explores the phenomenon of guilt and how it attaches to a whole society; not just to individual perpetrators. He considers how to use the lesson of history to motivate individual moral behavior; how to reconcile a guilt-laden past; how the role of law functions in this process; and how the theme of guilt influences his own fiction. Based on the Weidenfeld Lectures he delivered at Oxford University; Guilt About the Past is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand how events of the past can affect a nation's future. Written in Bernhard Schlink's eloquent but accessible style; it taps in to worldwide interest in the aftermath of war and how to forgive and reconcile the various legacies of the past.