Resentment's Virtue

Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive

von Thomas Brudholm

256 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• ISBN: 9781592135660
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 15.02.2008
• Größe: 236 x 160 mm
• Verlag: Temple University Press