Guilt

How can we not only recognize, but also recover from, the atrocities of the past? Drawing on a global range of recent case studies, this book offers a kaleidoscopic, thought-provoking dive into new research on guilt in the aftermath of collective violence and confirms that penance can be productive. Mediated through religion, law, and politics, as well as film, literature, and theatre, guilt as a shared sense of moral responsibility can lead societies towards reconciliation

Autorentext
Katharina von Kellenbach is Professor emerita of Religious Studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland and project coordinator at the Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin. She is the author of Anti-Judaism in Feminist Religious Writings, The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Lives of Nazi Perpetrators, and Composting Guilt: The Purification of Memory after Atrocity. Matthias Buschmeier is an Associate Professor (Akademischer Oberrat) of German Literature at Bielefeld University, Germany. He has published widely on German and European Literature and the History of Knowledge from the 18th to 20th centuries. His areas of research include the relation between literature and politics, cultural theory, hermeneutics and pragmatism, philology, the historiography of world literature, and discourses of knowledge.

Klappentext
Since the end of the 20th century, social movements around the world have called for accountability and reparation for past harms, particularly harms committed by states against various minority groups. This volume argues that guilt is a productive force that helps to balance unequal power dynamics between individuals and groups. With chapters bridging the social sciences, law, and humanities, chapter authors examine the role and function of guilt in society and present case studies from seven national contexts.

Zusammenfassung
Across the globe guilt has become a contentious issue in discussions over historical accountability and reparation for past injustices. Guilt has become political, and it assumes a highly visible place in the public sphere and academic debate in fields ranging from cultural memory, to transitional justice, post-colonialism, Africana studies, and the study of populist extremism. This volume argues that guilt is a productive force that helps to balance unequal power dynamics between individuals and groups. Moreover, guilt can also be an ambivalent force affecting social cohesion, moral revolutions, political negotiation, artistic creativity, legal innovation, and other forms of transformations. With chapters bridging the social sciences, law, and humanities, chapter authors examine the role and function of guilt in society and present case studies from seven national contexts. The book approaches guilt as a generative and enduring presence in societies and cultures rather than as an oppressive and destructive burden that necessitates quick release and liberation. It also considers guilt as something that legitimates the future infliction of violence. Finally, it examines the conditions under which guilt promotes transformation, repair, and renewal of relationships.

Inhalt
Introduction
Matthias Buschmeier and Katharina von Kellenbach
Part I: Guilt as a Prosocial Force in Interpersonal Relations
Guilt as a Positive Motivation for Action? On Vicarious Penance in the History of Christianity
Meinolf Schumacher
White Guilt in the Summer of Black Lives Matter
Lisa B. Spanierman
From Shame to Guilt: Indonesian Strategies against Child Marriage
Nelly van Doorn-Harder
Historical and Survivor Guilt in the Incorporation of Refugees in Germany
John Borneman
Part II: Transforming Guilt Into (Restorative) Justice
The Productivity of Guilt in Criminal Law Discourses
Klaus Günther
Making Guilt Productive: The Case for Restorative Justice in Criminal Law
Valerij Zisman
Guilt With and Without Punishment: On Moral and Legal Guilt in Contexts of Impunity
Dominik Hofmann
Post-War Justice for the Nazi Murders of Patients in Kherson, Ukraine: Comparing German and Soviet Trials
Tanja Penter
Part III: Guilt as Creative Irritation
Rituals of Repentance: Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing"
Katharina von Kellenbach
Performing Guilt: How the Theater of the 1960s Challenged German Memory Culture
Saskia Fischer
Guilty Dreams: Culpability and Reactionary Violence in Gujarat
Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
The Guilt of Warriors
Susan Derwin
Part IV: The Politics of Guilt Negotiations
The Art of Apology: On the True and the Phony in Political Apology
Maria-Sibylla Lotter
Relationships in Transition: Negotiating Accountability and Productive Guilt in Timor Leste
Victor Igreja
Negotiating Germany's War Guilt. On the Emergence of a New International Law in the First World War
Ethel Matala de Mazza
The Absence of Productive Guilt in Shame and Disgrace: Misconceptions in and of German Memory Culture from 1945-2020
Matthias Buschmeier

#	Onlineshop	Preis CHF	Versand CHF	Total CHF
1	Seller	0.00	0.00	0.00