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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... questions about transitional justice and reconciliation, I had in mind a more “constructive” examination of concepts like “political forgiveness” and “restorative justice.” Like so many others, I was particularly fascinated by the ...
... Questions like those posed above are rarely taken seriously in current discourses of forgiveness and reconciliation after mass atrocity, which assume that forgiveness and compassion are morally superior to anger and resentment. Indeed ...
... questions about the nature and value of the negative emotions arise in a broad variety of contexts: for example, in our ... question of how to think about the emotions and attitudes of people who have survived genocide, persecution, or ...
... question, it is more difficult to gain clarity about the moral nature and value of responses to the policies and attitudes of the aftermath. Is it not, at some point, legitimate or appropriate to expect victims of mass atrocity to ...
... question how emerging democracies should address mass violations of human rights in their pasts has become the subject of a global conversation. A continuously growing scholarly literature of transitional justice studies addresses the ...
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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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