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Resentment's virtue : Jean Amery and the refusal to forgive / Thomas Brudholm ; foreword by Jeffrie G. Murphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brudholm, Thomas, 1969-
- Series:
- Politics, history, and social change.
- Politics, history, and social change
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forgiveness.
- Resentment.
- Reconciliation.
- South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
- South Africa.
- Améry, Jean.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Arguing beyond hasty dichotomies and unexamined moral assumptions, Resentment's Virtue offers a more nuanced approach to an understanding of the reasons why survivors of mass atrocities sometimes harbour resentment and refuse to forgive. Building on a close examination of the writings of Holocaust-survivor Jean Améry, Brudholm argues that the preservation of resentment or the resistance to calls for forgiveness can be the reflex of a moral protest and ambition that might be as permissible, humane or honourable as the willingness to forgive.
- Contents:
- Dwelling on the negative
- Alchemies of reconciliation after mass atrocity
- Anger, resentment, and ressentiment
- Philosophy on the border
- Book outline
- Revisisiting the truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa
- Commissioning anger
- Re-viewing a miracle
- The truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa
- The hearings
- This is not a court of law
- Forgiving and its alternatives
- Facing resistance
- The therapy of anger
- What victims feel and want
- Getting on with life
- The lures of the therapeutic perspective
- Desmond tutu on anger
- Those who will not forgive resentment : a legitimate moral sentiment?
- Anger, Ubuntu, and social harmony
- Boosterism of forgiveness
- Layers and remainders
- Nested resentments
- Acknowledging remainders : the constitutional court
- Tansition to part two
- Jean Amery on resentment and reconciliation
- Contextualizing "ressentiments"
- From South Africa to post-war Germany
- Jean Amery : life and works
- Beyond guilt and atonement
- Germany, 1945-1965
- Reading "ressentiments"
- Opening moves
- From clarification to justification
- Reimagining ressentiment
- The origins of Amery's ressentiment
- Reforming ressentiment
- Facing the irreversible
- The zustand passage
- The twisted sense of time
- The absurd demand
- Changing the past or its significance
- to the present?
- Ambiguities of ressentiment and reconciliation
- Restoring coexistence
- Moral conflict resolution
- Ressentiment and the release from abandonment
- Rehabilitating the "man of ressentiment"
- Guilt and responsibility
- Collective guilt
- Heirs to responsibility
- Wishful thinking?
- A moral daydream
- Resentment and self-preoccupation
- Awakening
- A multifarious reception
- Heyd and Chaumont
- Neiman and Amben
- Walker and Remtma.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611383077
- 9781592135684
- 1592135684
- 9781281383075
- 1281383074
- OCLC:
- 476156693
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