After Injury: A Historical Anatomy of Forgiveness, Resentment, and Apology

'After Injury' explores the practices of forgiveness, resentment, and apology in three key moments when they were undergoing a dramatic change: 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 ordinary language philosophers and sociologists of everyday life theorized what it means to express or perform an apology

Forgiveness -- Forgiveness: Jesus and Paul -- The banality of forgiveness -- Forgiving retribution -- Resentment -- Resentment: the wound of Philoctetes -- The British moralist tradition: conscience -- The continental cultural tradition: collective -- Apology -- Apology: the unforgiven lives of others -- Private apologies -- Public apologies -- The arts of empathy