| Description |
1 online resource (x, 240 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- More than cheap sentimentality: victim testimony at the Nuremberg Trials, the Eichmann trial, and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- Confronting anger: where the South African TRC fell short -- The first skeptic: Hannah Arendt and the danger of victim testimony -- The second skeptic: Adam Smith and the visualization of sympathy -- Three values of anger -- Trust enough to tarry -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
What is the relationship between anger and justice, especially when so much of our moral education has taught us to value the impartial spectator, the cold distance of reason? In Sing the Rage, Sonali Chakravarti wrestles with this question through a careful look at the emotionally charged South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which from 1996 to 1998 saw, day after day, individuals taking the stand to speak-to cry, scream, and wail-about the atrocities of apartheid. Uncomfortable and surprising, these public emotional displays, she argues, proved to be of immense valu |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975.
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Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962 -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975 fast |
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Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962 fast |
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Arendt, Hannah, (1906-1975) ram |
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Eichmann, Adolf, (1906-1962) ram |
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South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission fast |
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Afrique du Sud. Truth and reconciliation commission. ram |
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Anger -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Anger -- Philosophy
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Justice (Philosophy)
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Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
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Anger -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Justice (Philosophy)
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Colère -- Aspect moral.
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Colère -- Philosophie.
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justice -- Philosophie.
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Nuremberg, Procès de (1945-1946)
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Germany -- Nuremberg
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| Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226120041 |
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022612004X |
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9781306577496 |
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1306577497 |
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