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i AFTER INJURY ii iii AFTER INJURY A Historical Anatomy of Forgiveness, Resentment, and Apology Ashraf H. A. Rushdy 1 iv 1 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. CIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN 978– 0– 19– 085197– 2 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America v For My Beloved Sons, Zidane Amgad and Aziz Senai vi vii CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 SECTION I: Forgiveness 1. Forgiveness: Jesus and Paul 23 2. The Banality of Forgiveness 44 3. Forgiving Retribution 61 SECTION II: Resentment 4. Resentment: The Wound of Philoctetes 99 5. The British Moral Tradition: Conscience 124 6. The Continental Cultural Tradition: Collective 146 SECTION III: Apology 7. The Unforgiven Lives of Others 171 8. Private Apologies 195 9. Public Apologies 224 viii viii • Contents Conclusion 256 Afterword: The Arts of Empathy 274 Index 283 ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is a pleasure to thank all those who made this book possible, and those who made it and my life immeasurably better. At Oxford University Press, Peter Ohlin has been a thoroughly thought- ful and supportive editor. I have read many, many books whose authors thank him for doing what the best editors do. I am truly happy to add mine to that list of books that have benefited—and been made possible—by his conscien- tious attention. It has indeed been as much a pleasure as it is an honor to work with him. Isla Ng has been enthusiastic and very helpful; I thank her, espe- cially, for finding a way to get the permissions for the Ingres painting on the cover. I would like to thank Andrew Pachuta for his painstaking copy-editing work. Finally, I am grateful for the terrific work Rajesh Kathamuthu has done as the project manager who has expertly and generously overseen the process of producing this book. I could not have been more fortunate in having the Press readers I have had. Stephen Darwall is a philosopher for whom I have tremendous respect. His work on the history of ethics and on the foundations of moral obliga- tion has deeply informed and enlarged my thinking, as it has that of so many others. One of the things that most impresses me in reading his essays and books is both how brilliant and yet also how generous he consistently is in his assessment of the ideas of other philosophers. I am deeply thankful to him for his very helpful suggestions in improving my work, and for teaching me so effectively through his own. This book would not exist without Jeffrie Murphy. His always profoundly illuminating and incisive essays first inspired me to think about the topics I take up in this book. That is not surprising, of course, since no contemporary philosopher has done more to inform the work of those who wrote after him on the subjects of forgiveness and resentment. What I find even more inspir- ing than his pioneering writing on those subjects, though, is the empathy, integrity, and considerable open-mindedness he exhibits in that remarkable
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