Resentment's virtue : Jean Améry and the refusal to forgive /
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| Author / Creator: | Brudholm, Thomas, 1969- |
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| 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 |
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.
