As margakit in the preface, this small book is a collection of lectures a format I always have problem with with an approach stressed on examples and light on principles a bit like Zizek, not really my favorite. Thick relations, he argues, are those that we have with family and friends, lovers and neighbors, our tribe and our nation-and they are all dependent on shared memories. I would like to present the idea of an Ethics of Memory and how the Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit dealt with it in his book The Ethics of Memory. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data. In a book that asks, “Is there an ethics of memory?” Avishai Margalit. Much of the intense current interest in collective memory concerns the politics of memory.
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