Resentment's Virtue: Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781592135660)

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.

Author: Thomas Brudholm
ISBN-10: 1592135668
ISBN-13: 9781592135660
Publisher: Temple University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.34w x 0.87d

Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 12/01/2008 pg. 71