Marguerite La Caze

Ethical Restoration after Communal Violence (eBook, ePUB)

The Grieving and the Unrepentant

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary political ethics has to face the question of how to repair relations which have broken down after crimes, oppression, and political violence. The book employs the work of European and feminist philosophers, including Jacques Derrida, Albert Camus, Simone Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre, Giorgio Agamben, Immanuel Kant, Jean Améry, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Margaret Urban Walker and Linda Radzik to engage with historical and recent cases: the post-liberation French purge, post-genocide Rwanda and post-colonial Australia and draws out the negative and positive conditions of ethical political responses in these contexts. It develops a philosophical account of ethical restoration through focusing on just punishment, guilt and shame, rebuilding political trust, forgiveness and reconciliation, remorse and atonement, and self-forgiveness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498526708
• Artikelnr.: 56798864

Autorenporträt

Marguerite La Caze is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Queensland.

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