Resentment's virtue : Jean Amery and the refusal to forgive /

Resentment's virtue : Jean Amery and the refusal to forgive / / Thomas Brudholm ; foreword by Jeffrie G. Murphy.

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Superior document:Politics, history, and social change
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Brudholm, Thomas, 1969-
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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Politics, history, and social change.
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Physical Description:xv, 235 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Dwelling on the negative
  • Alchemies of reconciliation after mass atrocity
  • Anger, resentment, and ressentiment
  • Philosophy on the border
  • Book outline
  • Revisisiting the truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa
  • Commissioning anger
  • Re-viewing a miracle
  • The truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa
  • The hearings
  • This is not a court of law
  • Forgiving and its alternatives
  • Facing resistance
  • The therapy of anger
  • What victims feel and want
  • Getting on with life
  • The lures of the therapeutic perspective
  • Desmond tutu on anger
  • Those who will not forgive resentment : a legitimate moral sentiment?
  • Anger, Ubuntu, and social harmony
  • Boosterism of forgiveness
  • Layers and remainders
  • Nested resentments
  • Acknowledging remainders : the constitutional court
  • Tansition to part two
  • Jean Amery on resentment and reconciliation
  • Contextualizing "ressentiments"
  • From South Africa to post-war Germany
  • Jean Amery : life and works
  • Beyond guilt and atonement
  • Germany, 1945-1965
  • Reading "ressentiments"
  • Opening moves
  • From clarification to justification
  • Reimagining ressentiment
  • The origins of Amery's ressentiment
  • Reforming ressentiment
  • Facing the irreversible
  • The zustand passage
  • The twisted sense of time
  • The absurd demand
  • Changing the past or its significance--to the present?
  • Ambiguities of ressentiment and reconciliation
  • Restoring coexistence
  • Moral conflict resolution
  • Ressentiment and the release from abandonment
  • Rehabilitating the "man of ressentiment"
  • Guilt and responsibility
  • Collective guilt
  • Heirs to responsibility
  • Wishful thinking?
  • A moral daydream
  • Resentment and self-preoccupation
  • Awakening
  • A multifarious reception
  • Heyd and Chaumont
  • Neiman and Amben
  • Walker and Remtma.

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