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

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Resentment's Virtue: Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive - Brudholm, Thomas
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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 Amery, 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 ...

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Resentment's Virtue: Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive 2010, Temple University Press, Philadelphia PA

ISBN-13: 9781592135677

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Resentment's Virtue: Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive 2008, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA

ISBN-13: 9781592135660

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