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Brendese, P.J.. "Democratic Memory, Amnesty and Amnesia: Nietzschean Forgetting and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40182_index.html>

Brendese, P. , 2005-09-01 "Democratic Memory, Amnesty and Amnesia: Nietzschean Forgetting and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p40182_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: What politics of memory lends itself to democratic possibilities? Since ancient Athens, democracy has required an enigmatic blend of forgetting and remembering. On the one hand, amnesty (with its root word amnesia) appears as a condition of possibility for democratic engagement free of violent retribution and division. On the other hand, inclusive public commemoration is integral to the very identity and continuity of the polis as a community of memory and shared potentiality. Through a critical encounter with Nietzsche�s essay �On the Uses and Disadvantages for Life,� I explore various practices of remembrance and forgetting in terms of their usefulness for the life of democracy in South Africa and abroad. In the aftermath of apartheid, South Africa�s Truth and Reconciliation Commission represents a remarkable effort to achieve a democratic polity by refiguring public remembrance. Though there is much to be admired about the TRC, I argue against an unqualified celebration and exportation of the commission as a model for democratizing memory. By examining the power relations that shaped South Africa�s commissioned remembrance of the past, I show how the amnesia of amnesty forgets core elements of apartheid that, left unaddressed, will likely return to haunt its democracy. Finally, I develop Nietzsche�s suspicion of dominant practices of memory to theorize a relationship with the past that invigorates democratic potentiality.

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