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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... trials and truth commis- sions have been pictured as vehicles of emotional healing and cathartic transformation. It is commonly hoped that trials will channel or placate vic- tims' and relatives' retributive emotions. For example, the ...
... trials . Indeed , being cross - examined by Slobodan Milosovic or simply being exposed to the intrinsic harshness of the adversarial criminal justice process is not likely to be “ healing " to participating victims . In criminal courts ...
... trial is inherently not a victim-friendly setting.2 Therefore, some advocates have looked to truth commissions as a more victim-friendly forum. Raquel Aldana (2006:108) summarizes these propo- nents' arguments, which claim that victims ...
... trials and objecting to the advocacy of forgiveness might be driven by desires for revenge , but it is equally possible that they sim- ply want legal justice . To talk as if a desire for punishment or retribution , on the one hand , and ...
... trial (for a comprehensive comparative examination, see Aldana 2006), the absence of the harshness and demands of the adversarial context of criminal justice does not mean that victims testifying in truth and reconciliation commissions ...
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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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