Resentment's Virtue - Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive

List of contents

Foreward by Jefferie Murphy 
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Transitional Justice and the Ethics of Anger
Part I: Revisiting the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa
2. Commissioning Anger 
3. The Hearings 
4. The Therapy of Anger 
5. Desmond Tutu on Anger 
6. Layers and Remainders
Part II: Jean Améry on Resentment and Reconciliation
7. Contextualizing "Ressentiments" 
8. Opening Moves 
9. Facing the Irreversible 
10. Restoring Coexistance 
11. Guilt and Responsibility 
12. Wishful Thinking? 
13. A Multifarious Reception 
14. Epilogue: Between Resentment and Ressentiment
Appendix I: Overview of Jean Améry's "Ressentiments" 
Appendix II: Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity 
Notes 
Works Cited 
Index

About the author

Thomas Brudholm is Research Fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Brudholm
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2008
• EAN: 9781592135660
• ISBN: 978-1-59213-566-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 502 g
• Series: Politics History & Social Chan; Politics, History, and Social
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous