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  • Resentment's Virtue

    Jean Amery and the Refusal to Forgive

    Series series Politics History & Social Chan
    Most current talk of forgiveness and reconciliation in the aftermath of collective violence proceeds from an assumption that forgiveness is always superior to resentment and refusal to forgive. Victims who demonstrate a willingness to forgive are often celebrated as virtuous moral models, while those who refuse to forgive are frequently seen as suffering from a pathology. Resentment is viewed as a ... Read more

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  • Emotions and Mass Atrocity

    Philosophical and Theoretical Explorations

    The study of genocide and mass atrocity abounds with references to emotions: fear, anger, horror, shame and hatred. Yet we don't understand enough about how 'ordinary' emotions behave in such extreme contexts. Emotions are not merely subjective and interpersonal phenomena; they are also powerful social and political forces, deeply involved in the history of mass violence. Drawing on recent ... Read more

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  • Hate, Politics, Law

    Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate

    Series series Studies in Penal Theory and Philosophy
    References to hate have become ubiquitous in the modern response to group defamation and violence in liberal democracies. Whether expressed in speech, acted out in criminal conduct, or seen as the fuel of terror and extremism, hate is persistently considered a vice, an evil, and a threat to the modern liberal democracy. But what exactly is at stake when societies oppose hate? In Hate, Politics, ... Read more

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  • On Jean Améry

    Philosophy of Catastrophe

    On Jean Améry provides a comprehensive discussion of one of the most challenging and complex post-Holocaust thinkers, Jean Améry (1912-1978), a Jewish-Austrian-Belgian essayist, journalist and literary author. In the English-speaking world Améry is known for his poignant publication, At the Mind's Limits, a narrative of exile, dispossession, torture, and Auschwitz. In recent years, there has been ... Read more

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  • Crises of the Republic

    Lying in Politics, Civil Disobedience, On Violence, Thoughts on Politics and Revolution

    by Hannah Arendt ...
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  • The Idea of the Public Sphere

    A Reader

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  • Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

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  • Fools, Frauds and Firebrands

    Thinkers of the New Left

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