After injury : a historical anatomy of forgiveness, resentment, and apology / Ashraf H.A. Rushdy.

After Injury explores the practices of forgiveness, resentment, and apology in three key moments when they were undergoing a dramatic change. The three moments are early Christian history (for forgiveness), the shift from British eighteenth-century to Continental nineteenth-century philosophers (for...

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Main Author: Rushdy, Ashraf H. A., 1961- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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Table of Contents:
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgiveness: Jesus and Paul
  • The banality of forgiveness
  • Forgiving retribution
  • Resentment
  • Resentment: the wound of Philoctetes
  • The British moralist tradition: conscience
  • The continental cultural tradition: collective
  • Apology
  • Apology: the unforgiven lives of others
  • Private apologies
  • Public apologies
  • The arts of empathy.