Enlightened remembering and the paradox of forgetting: from Dante to data privacy

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dc.contributor.authorO'Callaghan, Patricken
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-03T15:47:59Z
dc.date.available2025-11-03T15:47:59Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-20en
dc.description.abstractThis paper adopts a law and humanities-based methodology to critique the binary distinction between remembering and forgetting that often features in law and policy. Using the right to be forgotten as a case study, the paper argues that such a distinction conceals the many ways that remembering and forgetting are intrinsically connected. In particular, a binary distinction understands forgetting as not remembering. But forgetting can also take the form of enlightened remembering: a deliberate choice to think differently about the past, an attempt to remember it in more positive or constructive ways. Drawing on insights from Dante’s Divine Comedy, the paper pursues a normative argument about the value of enlightened remembering and then assesses the implications for legal discourse.en
dc.description.sponsorshipIrish Research Council (Laureate Grant IRCLA/2022/2628)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationO’Callaghan, P. (2023) 'Enlightened remembering and the paradox of forgetting: from Dante to data privacy', Law and Humanities, 17(2), pp. 210–227. https://doi.org/10.1080/17521483.2023.2223806en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/17521483.2023.2223806en
dc.identifier.eissn1752-1491en
dc.identifier.endpage227en
dc.identifier.issn1752-1483en
dc.identifier.issued2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleLaw and Humanitiesen
dc.identifier.startpage210en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18143
dc.identifier.volume17en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.rights© 2023, the Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis GroupThis is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDer-ivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distri-bution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered,transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of theAccepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectRight to be forgottenen
dc.subjectRight to forgeten
dc.subjectRemembering and forgettingen
dc.subjectLaw and literatureen
dc.subjectDanteen
dc.titleEnlightened remembering and the paradox of forgetting: from Dante to data privacyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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