After Injury: A Historical Anatomy of Forgiveness, Resentment, and Apology

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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 resentment), and the moment in the 1950s postwar world in which British ordinary language philosophers and American sociologists of everyday life theorized what it means to express or perform an apology. The debates that arose in those key moments have largely defined our contemporary study of these practices. Cover......Page 1 After Injury......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Introduction......Page 14 Section I: Forgiveness......Page 34 1. Forgiveness: Jesus and Paul......Page 36 2. The Banality of Forgiveness......Page 57 3. Forgiving Retribution......Page 74 Section II: Resentment......Page 110 4. Resentment: The Wound of Philoctetes......Page 112 5. The British Moral Tradition: Conscience......Page 137 6. The Continental Cultural Tradition: Collective......Page 159 Section III: Apology......Page 182 7. The Unforgiven Lives of Others......Page 184 8. Private Apologies......Page 208 9. Public Apologies......Page 237 Conclusion......Page 269 Afterword: The Arts of Empathy......Page 287 Index......Page 296