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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Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive Thomas Brudholm. tion, anger and resentment are often seen not merely as inferior emotions. More than that, they connote self-preoccupation, weakness, and danger inso- far as they are seen as ...
... tion against this general trend. For example, Elizabeth V. Spelman warns that “a voracious appetite for fixing can lead to poor judgment about what is and what is not desirable or even possible to repair” (2003:239). In a similar vein ...
... tion that includes such classical thinkers as Joseph Butler and Adam Smith and such contemporary philosophers as Jeffrie Murphy and Richard Wallace, resentment is seen as a legitimate and valuable form of anger responding to perceived ...
... tion conceptualized as resentment in the moral philosophical works men- tioned above . At the same time , his reasoning also reveals certain affinities to ressentiment as conceived by Nietzsche and Scheler . Therefore , in this book , I ...
... tion to deepen and widen our understanding of negative reactive emotions and attitudes and to contradict hastily drawn pictures of the goodness of for- giveness and the badness of resentment. Several scholars—Lawrence Langer, James E ...
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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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