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This volume considers challenges to forgiveness in the most difficult circumstances, such as in criminal justice contexts, when the victim is dead or when bystanders disagree, and when anger and resentment seem preferable and important.
List of contents
Introduction: The Challenges of Forgiveness in Context Kathryn J. Norlock / 1. Intersubjectivity and Embodiment: Exploring the Role of the Maternal in the Language of Forgiveness and Reconciliation Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela / 2.What Victims Say and How They Say it Matters: Effects of Victims' Post-Transgression Responses and Form of Communication on Transgressors' Apologies C. Ward Struthers, Joshua Guilfoyle, Careen Khoury, Elizabeth van Monsjou, Joni Sasaki, Curtis Phills, Rebecca Young, and Zdravko Marjanovic / 3. An Aristotelian Perspective on Forgiveness Education in Contentious World Regions Robert D. Enright and Mary Jacqueline Song / 4. Forgiveness, Exemplars, and the Oppressed Myisha Cherry / 5.Resentment, Punitiveness, and Forgiveness: Criminal Sanction and Civil Society, by Jonathan Jacobs / 6. Once More With Feeling: Defending the Goodwill Account of Forgiveness, David McNaughton and Eve Garrard / 7. Forgiveness and Reconciliation Barrett Emerick / 8. In Defense of Third-Party Forgiveness Alice MacLachlan / Notes on Contributors / Bibliography
About the author
Kathryn J. Norlock is Professor of Philosophy and the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics at Trent University. She is the author of Forgiveness from a Feminist Perspective (2009) and co-editor of Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness (2009).
Summary
This volume considers challenges to forgiveness in the most difficult circumstances, such as in criminal justice contexts, when the victim is dead or when bystanders disagree, and when anger and resentment seem preferable and important.
