Resentment's Virtue

Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive

Autor: Thomas Brudholm

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Temple University Press,U.S.

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Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the wake of collective violence proceeds from...

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Autor

Thomas Brudholm

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2008

Stránek

256

EAN

9781592135660

Enbook ID

05087399

Vydavatel

Temple University Press,U.S.

Hmotnost

494

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 23

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Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the wake of collective violence proceeds from an assumption that forgiveness is always admirable and superior to resentment and resistance to reconciliation. Victims who demonstrate a willingness and ability to forgive and 'look to the future' are often celebrated as moral models of magnanimity and generosity, while those who refuse to forgive and let go of their resentment are often taken to be in the grips of a regrettable pathological, or degrading state, and suffering from an excess of vindictiveness. Resentment is often only seen as the negative state to be overcome, the irrational, immoral; the unhealthy attitudes of victims who are not 'ready' or 'capable' of forgiving and healing. Arguing beyond hasty dichotomies and unexamined moral assumptions, "Resentment's Virtue" offers a more nuanced approach to an understanding of the reasons why survivors of mass atrocities sometimes harbour resentment and refuse to forgive. Building on a close examination of the writings of Holocaust-survivor Jean Amery, Brudholm argues that the preservation of resentment or the resistance to calls for forgiveness can be the reflex of a moral protest and ambition that might be as permissible, humane or honourable as the willingness to forgive.

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