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

by Thomas Brudholm

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592135676
• ISBN13: 9781592135677
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"