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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... perpetrators as exhibiting serious moral, spiritual, or even psychological problems. This final charge comes as no surprise, of course, in a culture that is increasingly dominated by therapeutic language and often uses that lan- guage ...
... perpetrator of that crime, or even the problems involved in asking God for forgiveness for one's own personal sins—some ... perpetrators or as in some other way manifesting complicity in what has come to be called mass atroci- ties. Here ...
... perpetrators only disclosure and admission of responsibility as conditions for amnesty. It did not require expressions of repentance or apol- ogy from them and did not base its decisions on whether the victims them- selves (the only ...
... perpetrators of the heinous. re the strongly vindictive desires expressed in the first quote above by the witness to a massacre of civilians in Sarajevo funda- mentally undesirable or unjustified ? Would it have been more commendable if ...
... perpetrators of the heinous crime: hat- ing their acts, but forgiving the agents? What is the moral significance of the experience and expression of anger in the face of evil? And what should we think about the attitude of Francine, a ...
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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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