Dwelling on the negative
Alchemies of reconciliation after mass atrocity
Anger, resentment, and ressentiment
Philosophy on the border
Book outline
Revisisiting the truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa
Commissioning anger
Re-viewing a miracle
The truth and reconciliation commission of South Africa
The hearings
This is not a court of law
Forgiving and its alternatives
Facing resistance
The therapy of anger
What victims feel and want
Getting on with life
The lures of the therapeutic perspective
Desmond tutu on anger
Those who will not forgive resentment : a legitimate moral sentiment?
Anger, Ubuntu, and social harmony
Boosterism of forgiveness
Layers and remainders
Nested resentments
Acknowledging remainders : the constitutional court
Tansition to part two
Jean Améry on resentment and reconciliation
Contextualizing "ressentiments"
From South Africa to post-war Germany
Jean Améry : life and works
Beyond guilt and atonement
Germany, 1945-1965
Reading "ressentiments"
Opening moves
From clarification to justification
Reimagining ressentiment
The origins of Améry's ressentiment
Reforming ressentiment
Facing the irreversible
The zustand passage
The twisted sense of time
The absurd demand
Changing the past or its significance
to the present?
Ambiguities of ressentiment and reconciliation
Restoring coexistence
Moral conflict resolution
Ressentiment and the release from abandonment
Rehabilitating the "man of ressentiment"
Guilt and responsibility
Collective guilt
Heirs to responsibility
Wishful thinking?
A moral daydream
Resentment and self-preoccupation
Awakening
A multifarious reception
Heyd and Chaumont
Neiman and Amben
Walker and Remtma.