Ethical restoration after communal violence: the grieving and the unrepentant
Negative conditions of ethical restoration -- I love living: Derrida, the death penalty, and unconditional abolition -- The taste of ashes: Beauvoir, vengefulness, and the death penalty in post-war France -- At first blush: guilt, shame, and humiliation -- Positive conditions of ethical restoration -- Pretending peace: Kant, Améry, and political trust -- Betrayed by life: Derrida, forgiveness, and reconciliation in post-genocide Rwanda -- A dreadful solitude: Jankélévitch, remorse and the demand for atonement -- This hole in my heart: acts of atonement in post-colonial Australia -- In search of a magic spell: Hannah Arendt and self-forgiveness