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

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Author / Creator:Brudholm, Thomas, 1969-
Imprint:Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Description:xv, 235 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Politics, history, and social change
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6689196
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ISBN:9781592135660 (cloth : alk. paper)
1592135668 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index.
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 Améry on resentment and reconciliation
  • Contextualizing "ressentiments"
  • From South Africa to post-war Germany
  • Jean Améry : life and works
  • Beyond guilt and atonement
  • Germany, 1945-1965
  • Reading "ressentiments"
  • Opening moves
  • From clarification to justification
  • Reimagining ressentiment
  • The origins of Améry'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.