Resentment's Virtue: Jean Amery and the Refusal to ForgiveTemple University Press, 28. 2. 2008. - 256 страница Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the aftermath of collective violence proceeds from an assumption that forgiveness is always superior to resentment and refusal to forgive. Victims who demonstrate a willingness to forgive are often celebrated as virtuous moral models, while those who refuse to forgive are frequently seen as suffering from a pathology. Resentment is viewed as a negative state, held by victims who are not "ready" or "capable" of forgiving and healing. Resentment's Virtue offers a new, more nuanced view. Building on the writings of Holocaust survivor Jean Améry and the work of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Thomas Brudholm argues that the preservation of resentment can be the reflex of a moral protest that might be as permissible, humane or honorable as the willingness to forgive. Taking into account the experiences of victims, the findings of truth commissions, and studies of mass atrocities, Brudholm seeks to enrich the philosophical understanding of resentment. |
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... focus on emotions and attitudes of people who have been seriously wronged, a similar picture prevails: forgiving is studied and promoted with a nuanced attention to its nature and benefits, but anger and resentment are either rejected ...
... focus in this book rather lies on the moral significance of various kinds of resentment (for books on vengeance cf. French 2001, Jacoby 1988, Murphy 2003, Phelps 2004, Solomon 1999, Tobias & Zinke 2000, R. Wilson 2001).3 I argue that ...
... focused on the time after the violence has been brought to an end. “After” connotes that something is finished, over, or done with. Yet, although mass killings have been stopped, camps have been opened, and resti- tution has been ...
... focused on institutions, justice, law, policies, and instru- ments, it seems mainly to call for legal and sociological studies, policy papers, and the like. However, whether one considers the discourses of the practition- ers or the ...
... be the sign of some kind of moral failure , personal deficiency , or malfunction . In short , much talking and thinking about postconflict justice and reconciliation have focused on a model of an idealized actor who demonstrates 8 Chapter ...
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Jean Améry on Resentment and Reconciliation | 63 |
Overview of Jean Amérys Ressentiments | 177 |
Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity | 179 |
Notes | 185 |
Works Cited | 209 |
Index | 223 |
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