Marguerite La Caze

Ethical Restoration after Communal Violence

The Grieving and the Unrepentant

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an account of ethical restoration in situations that bring ethical and political questions together. It shows how punishment as well as forgiveness and reconciliation are necessary to properly restore peace and justice in both transitional and democratic societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9781498526715
• ISBN-10: 1498526713
• Artikelnr.: 74289531

Autorenporträt

By Marguerite La Caze

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section I: Negative Conditions of Ethical Restoration.
Chapter 1: I Love Living: Derrida, the Death Penalty, and Unconditional
Abolition.
Chapter 2: The Taste of Ashes: Beauvoir, Vengefulness, and the Death
Penalty in Post-war France.
Chapter 3: At First Blush: Guilt, Shame, and Humiliation.
Section II: Positive Conditions of Ethical Restoration
Chapter 4: Pretending Peace: Kant, Améry, and Political Trust.
Chapter 5: Betrayed by Life: Derrida, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation in
Post-genocide Rwanda.
Chapter 6: A Dreadful Solitude: Jankélévitch, Remorse and the Demand for
Atonement.
Chapter 7: This Hole in my Heart: Acts of Atonement in Post-colonial
Australia.
Chapter 8: In Search of a Magic Spell: Hannah Arendt and Self-forgiveness.
Conclusion
Bibliography