Sing the rage : listening to anger after mass violence / Sonali Chakravarti.

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Chakravarti, Sonali [author.]

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online resource

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9780226120041
022612004X
9781306577496
1306577497

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sing the rage.DDC classification:

179.8 179/.8

LOC classification:

BJ1535.A6 C45 2014

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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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-230) and index.

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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.

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