Episode 8: Resentments, Justice, and the Sins of the Father

Jake and Phil overcome audio difficulties to discuss Jean Amery's "Resentments" and Andre Dubus II's short story "A Father's Story."

Works cited:

Jean Amery, At the Mind’s Limits

https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jean-amery-at-the-minds-limits-contemplations-by-a-survivor-on-auschwitz-and-its-realities.pdf (https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/jean-amery-at-the-minds-limits-contemplations-by-a-survivor-on-auschwitz-and-its-realities.pdf)

Camus on Scheller’s definition of resentment: The Rebel

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/23475/the-rebel-by-albert-camus/9780679733843 (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/23475/the-rebel-by-albert-camus/9780679733843)

Portraits of Reconciliation

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/magazine/06-pieter-hugo-rwanda-portraits.html (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/06/magazine/06-pieter-hugo-rwanda-portraits.html)

Rwanda and the NY Times

https://africasacountry.com/2014/04/rwanda-the-genocide-must-live-on (https://africasacountry.com/2014/04/rwanda-the-genocide-must-live-on)

Derrida, ‘To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible’

https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PPP668/%CE%97%20%CF%83%CF%85%CE%B3%CF%87%CF%8E%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7/Derrida%2C%20J.%2C%20To%20Forgive.%20The%20Unforgivable%20%26%20the%20Imprescrible%2C%20pp.%2021-51.pdf (https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PPP668/%CE%97%20%CF%83%CF%85%CE%B3%CF%87%CF%8E%CF%81%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7/Derrida%2C%20J.%2C%20To%20Forgive.%20The%20Unforgivable%20%26%20the%20Imprescrible%2C%20pp.%2021-51.pdf)

GK Chesterton, “The Chief Mourner of Marne”

https://harpers.org/archive/1925/05/the-chief-mourner-of-marne/ (https://harpers.org/archive/1925/05/the-chief-mourner-of-marne/)

Fred Alford, “Jean Amery: Resentment as Ethic and Ontology”

https://philpapers.org/rec/ALFJAR (https://philpapers.org/rec/ALFJAR)

Andre Dubus II, “A Father’s Story”

http://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/AndreDubus_AFathersStory.pdf (http://www.mbird.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/AndreDubus_AFathersStory.pdf)

Audio Clips:

Joel Osteen, “Living Guilt Free”

Brian Stevenson interview

You should know the final one.