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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... overcome: the irrational, immoral, and unhealthy or understandable but unfortunate attitudes of victims who are not—at least not yet— “ready” or “capable” of forgiving and healing. I do not deny the possibility that the refusal to ...
... overcome their resentment against perpetrators? Communities can lose patience with survivors and rela- tives who seem stuck in grievances or who appear to nurse their victimhood (perhaps for political reasons). At some point, societies ...
... overcoming or taming of emotion inform many conceptions of the process of reconciliation. Therefore, one can talk of alchemies of reconciliation, because notions of cathartic emotional transmutations sometimes seem more like wishful ...
... overcoming their anger and desires for revenge, not appeasing them by retribution. Despite the many references to emotions, the understanding of resent- ment and other negative emotional attitudes is typically tied to rationalist ...
... overcoming ” ( Halpern and Weinstein 2004 : 562 ) . Finally , when forgiveness , healing , and reconciliation are seen as ... overcome , nothing of any positive value is left behind . According to Barbara Herrnstein Smith , there is no ...
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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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