Resentment's virtue
Subtitle: Jean Améry and the refusal to forgive
By: Thomas Brudholm ; foreword by Jeffrie Murphy.
Series: Politics, history, and social change
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781592135660
Subjects: Améry, Jean; South Africa. -- Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Forgiveness; Resentment; Reconciliation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dwelling on the negative; title: Alchemies of reconciliation after mass atrocity; title: Anger, resentment, and ressentiment; title: Outline of the book; title: Philosophy on the border; title: Revisisiting the truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa; title: Commissioning anger; title: Re-viewing a miracle; title: The TRC; title: The hearings; title: This is not a court of law; title: Forgiving and its alternatives; title: Facing resistance; title: Pathologizing anger; title: What victims feel and want; title: Getting on with life; title: The lures of the therapeutic perspective; title: Banning anger; title: Those who will not forgive; title: Delegitimizing resentment; title: And nothing is more destructive ...; title: Boosterism of forgiveness; title: Layers and remainders; title: Nested resentments; title: Acknowledging remainders : the constitutional court; title: Tansition to part two; title: Jean Amery on resentment and reconciliation; title: Contextualizing "ressentiments"; title: From South Africa to post-war Germany; title: Jean Amery : life and works; title: Beyond guilt and atonement; title: Germany, 1945-1965; title: Reading "ressentiments"; title: Setting the scene; title: From clarification to justification; title: Re-imagining ressentiment; title: The origins of ressentiment; title: Reforming ressentiment; title: Facing the irreversible; title: The zustand-passage; title: The twisted sense of time; title: The absurd demand; title: Changing the past  or its significance to the present; title: Ambiguities of ressentiment and reconciliation; title: Restoring coexistence; title: Moral conflict-resolution; title: Ressentiment and the release from abandonment; title: Rehabilitating the "man of ressentiment"; title: Guilt and responsibility; title: Collective guilt; title: Heirs to responsibility; title: Wishful thinking; title: A moral daydream; title: Awakening; title: A multifarious reception; title: Heyd and Chaumont; title: Neiman and Amben; title: Walker and Remtma.