After Injury: A Historical Anatomy of Forgiveness, Resentment, and Apology

by Ashraf H A Rushdy and Ashraf H.A. Rushdy

After Injury explores the practices of forgiveness, resentment, and apology in three key moments when they were undergoing a dramatic change. The three moments are early Christian history (for forgiveness), the shift from British eighteenth-century to Continental nineteenth-century philosophers (for resentment), and the moment in the 1950s postwar world in which British ordinary language philosophers and American sociologists of everyday life theorized...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019085197X
• ISBN13: 9780190851972
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"