04442nam 2200685 a 450 991078235820332120230721033026.01-59213-568-41-281-38307-49786611383077(CKB)1000000000549217(EBL)340786(OCoLC)476156693(SSID)ssj0000236650(PQKBManifestationID)11216461(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000236650(PQKBWorkID)10188525(PQKB)10753843(SSID)ssj0000519683(PQKBManifestationID)12232911(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000519683(PQKBWorkID)10497202(PQKB)10965335(MiAaPQ)EBC340786(Au-PeEL)EBL340786(CaPaEBR)ebr10255150(CaONFJC)MIL138307(EXLCZ)99100000000054921720070507d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrResentment's virtue[electronic resource] Jean Améry and the refusal to forgive /Thomas Brudholm ; foreword by Jeffrie G. MurphyPhiladelphia Temple University Pressc20081 online resource (254 p.)Politics, history, and social changeDescription based upon print version of record.1-59213-566-8 1-59213-567-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index.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.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 Améry, 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.Politics, history, and social change.ForgivenessResentmentReconciliationForgiveness.Resentment.Reconciliation.179/.9Brudholm Thomas1969-1495946MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782358203321Resentment's virtue3720351UNINA