After Injury

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.

Auteur

is the Benjamin Waite Professor at Wesleyan University.

Contenu

Introduction Section One: Forgiveness Chapter One: Chapter Two: The Banality of Forgiveness Chapter Three: Forgiving Retribution Section Two: Resentment Chapter Four: Resentment: The Wound of Philoctetes Chapter Five: The British Moralist Tradition: Conscience Chapter Six: The Continental Cultural Tradition: Collective Section Three: Apology Chapter Seven: Apology: The Unforgiven Lives of Others Chapter Eight: Private Apologies Chapter Nine: Public Apologies Conclusion Afterword: The Arts of Empathy Notes