Multilayered temporalities underlying transitional justice: rethinking resentment and melancholia from Jean Améry and Walter Benjamin

Pérez Baquero, Rafael

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Multilayered temporalities underlying transitional justice: rethinking resentment and melancholia from Jean Améry and Walter Benjamin

dc.contributor	Gilbert, Bennet
dc.contributor	Elgabsi, Natan
dc.contributor.author	Pérez Baquero, Rafael
dc.contributor.department	Filosofía
dc.coverage.temporal	Siglo XX	es
dc.date.accessioned	2024-05-31T07:03:55Z
dc.date.available	2024-05-31T07:03:55Z
dc.date.copyright	© 2023 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	After the collective violence of the twentieth century, political debates on how to deal with historical debts stemming from such dreadful events have become the ground upon which ethical categories engage with sociohistorical processes. Due to events such as the Holocaust, the Soviet Gulag, the Apartheid, or colonial warfare, notions of collective guilt, historical responsibility, and political forgiveness were brought to the fore in public discourse and ethical debates. Owing to the legacies of such violence within post-conflict societies, there is a growing sense that the unsettling past persists in the present demanding recognition and accountability. Obviously, the victims who had suffered systematic and state-sponsored violence have become a prism through which unsettling historical debts haunt the present. Dealing with the voices of victims demanding justice and reparation is considered the most important goal of the juridical and political processes defined as “transitional justice,” which provides priceless resources for ensuring both stability and legitimacy of new democracies, after violent political transformations. At the end of the twentieth century, in different parts of the world—South America, Eastern and Southern Europe, South Africa—new democratic regimes emerged from authoritarian dictatorships. The new democracies not only had to deal with the tasks of reconstructing and modernizing their societies to avoid falling back into struggles but they also had to prosecute the crimes committed by those who had previously held power....
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350279124.0011
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-3502-7909-4
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/141967
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Bloomsbury Academic	es
dc.relation	Memoria y experiencia de las víctimas del terrorismo – para una mayor visibilidad en Europa. Sociedad antropológica de la Región de Murcia Erasmus + Program Jean Monnet activities 620406-EPP-1-2020-1-ES-EPPJMO-SUPPA 01/09/2020 - 31/08/2024	es
dc.relation.ispartof	Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History: A Cross-Cultural Approach / Bennet Gilbert and Natan Elgabsi (Eds.), pp. 69-85
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dc.subject	Philosophy of History	es
dc.subject	Memory	es
dc.subject.other	CDU::1 - Filosofía y psicología	es
dc.title	Multilayered temporalities underlying transitional justice: rethinking resentment and melancholia from Jean Améry and Walter Benjamin	es
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