03396nam a2200397 a 4500 ebr10255150 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070507s2008 pau sb 001 0 eng 2007018931 9781592135660 (cloth : alk. paper) 1592135668 (cloth : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)296737596 f-sa--- BJ1476 .B78 2008eb 179/.9 22 Brudholm, Thomas, 1969- Resentment's virtue [electronic resource] : Jean Am�ery and the refusal to forgive / Thomas Brudholm ; foreword by Jeffrie G. Murphy. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, c2008. xv, 235 p. Politics, history, and social change Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-222) and index. Dwelling on the negative -- Alchemies of reconciliation after mass atrocity -- Anger, resentment, and ressentiment -- Philosophy on the border -- Book outline -- Revisisiting the truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa -- Commissioning anger -- Re-viewing a miracle -- The truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa -- The hearings -- This is not a court of law -- Forgiving and its alternatives -- Facing resistance -- The therapy of anger -- What victims feel and want -- Getting on with life -- The lures of the therapeutic perspective -- Desmond tutu on anger -- Those who will not forgive resentment : a legitimate moral sentiment? -- Anger, Ubuntu, and social harmony -- Boosterism of forgiveness -- Layers and remainders -- Nested resentments -- Acknowledging remainders : the constitutional court -- Tansition to part two -- Jean Am�ery on resentment and reconciliation -- Contextualizing "ressentiments" -- From South Africa to post-war Germany -- Jean Am�ery : life and works -- Beyond guilt and atonement -- Germany, 1945-1965 -- Reading "ressentiments" -- Opening moves -- From clarification to justification -- Reimagining ressentiment -- The origins of Am�ery's ressentiment -- Reforming ressentiment -- Facing the irreversible -- The zustand passage -- The twisted sense of time -- The absurd demand -- Changing the past or its significance--to the present? -- Ambiguities of ressentiment and reconciliation -- Restoring coexistence -- Moral conflict resolution -- Ressentiment and the release from abandonment -- Rehabilitating the "man of ressentiment" -- Guilt and responsibility -- Collective guilt -- Heirs to responsibility -- Wishful thinking? -- A moral daydream -- Resentment and self-preoccupation -- Awakening -- A multifarious reception -- Heyd and Chaumont -- Neiman and Amben -- Walker and Remtma. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Am�ery, Jean. South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Forgiveness. Resentment. Reconciliation. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. Politics, history, and social change. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10255150 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 14806 14806