Resentment"s Virtue: Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive (Politics History & Social Chan)
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9781592135660
Brand
Temple Univ Pr
Author
Thomas Brudholm
Pages
256
Year of production
2008
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.