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International Journal of Transitional Justice Advance Access originally published online on October 17, 2008
International Journal of Transitional Justice 2008 2(3):427-429; doi:10.1093/ijtj/ijn021
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Resentment's Virtue: Jean Améry and the Refusal to Forgive, Thomas Brudholm

Alexis Dudden

Associate Professor of History, University of Connecticut, USA. Email: alexis.dudden@uconn.edu

Temple University Press, January 2008, 256pp. ISBN: 1592135668 – hardcover ($51.50)

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In Resentment's Virtue, Thomas Brudholm argues that being angry can be socially productive. With passion befitting his theme, Brudholm emphasizes that the specificity of a particular anger – anger at a particular time in a particular place for a particular reason – not only is critically important (as opposed to anger qua anger) but also makes the emotion and its attending behaviors morally and ethically defensible. In . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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