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 and ambition that might be as permissible, humane or honourable as the willingness to forgive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592135676
• ISBN13: 9781592135677
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.5"