http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-apologypolitics/article_603.jsp Comments for "Sorry: the present state of apology, Marina Warner " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-apologypolitics/article_603.jsp The theme of &#145;apology&#146; is in the air: governments are saying it to former colonial subjects, or to political prisoners in post-dictatorships; former terrorists to their targets; banks and businesses to looted or polluted clients; churches and cults to victims of abuse. Why are they doing it? In her approach to today&#146;s latest &#145;political enthusiasm&#146;, we accompany Marina Warner &#150; novelist, critic, and subversive anatomist of myth and the collective subconscious &#150; on a sparkling tour of the literature of apology over twenty-five centuries. This article is the first in a series of six published on openDemocracy.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-apologypolitics/article_603.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-apologypolitics/article_603.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-apologypolitics/article_603.jsp#comment democracy &amp; power Marina Warner Original Copyright sorry! the politics of apology Thu, 07 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000 603 at http://www.opendemocracy.net