Remembering or Forgetting the Civil War: Reflections on a Core Problem of State Formation
Abstract
In this article we focus on the relationship between civil war, memory and oblivion. If civil war is the worst evil of a political community and a people wants to avoid falling back into it, should they forget it or remember it? Hobbes offers a good understanding on this subject, despite the distance, from which we can extract a set of reflections for the contemporary world. Our text carries out a critical evaluation of this possible Hobbesian response.
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