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Contrary to the view of trauma popularized by literary theorists, Trauma and Forgiveness argues that the traumatized are capable of representing their experience and that we should therefore listen more and theorize less. Using stories and case studies, including testimonies from Holocaust survivors, as well as the victims of 'ordinary' trauma, C. Fred Alford shows that, while the traumatized are generally capable of representing their experience, this does little to heal them. He draws on the British Object Relations tradition in psychoanalysis to argue that forgiveness, which might be expected to help heal the traumatized, is generally an attempt to avoid the hard work of mourning losses that can never be made whole. Forgiveness is better seen as a virtue in the classical sense, a recognition of human vulnerability. The book concludes with an extended case study of the essayist Jean Améry and his refusal to forgive.

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9781107043404 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 28, 2014, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Contrary to the view of trauma popularized by literary theorists, Trauma and Forgiveness argues that the traumatized are capable of representing their experience and that we should therefore listen more and theorize less.

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9781107626607 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 26, 2015), cover price $38.00

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Product Description: Are there universal values of right and wrong, good and bad, shared by virtually every human? The tradition of natural law argues that there is. Drawing on the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, whose analyses have touched upon issues related to original sin, trespass, guilt, and salvation through reparation, in this 2006 book C...read more

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9780521863322 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 31, 2006), cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Are there universal values of right and wrong, good and bad, shared by virtually every human?

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9780521184373 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 17, 2011, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Are there universal values of right and wrong, good and bad, shared by virtually every human?

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Product Description: The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience. In this study, C. Fred Alford offers a new and thoughtful examination of the experience of suffering...read more

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9780521766326 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 4, 2009), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience.

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9780521747066 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 27, 2009), cover price $29.99 | About this edition: The Holocaust marks a decisive moment in modern suffering in which it becomes almost impossible to find meaning or redemption in the experience.

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Product Description: This book is aimed at those who are puzzled by the different ways in which the term "freedom" is used and abused. Based on interviews with people concerning the nature of freedom, the author compares what the people he talked with said about freedom with what Jean-Paul Sartre, Herbert Marcuse, and Iris Murdoch have to say about freedom...read more

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9781403968340 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 13, 2005, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book is aimed at those who are puzzled by the different ways in which the term "freedom" is used and abused.

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9781403968722 | Palgrave Macmillan, May 13, 2005, cover price $40.00

Product Description: Insightful and accessible critique of postmodern ethics.

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9780819566027 | 1 edition (Wesleyan Univ Pr, March 5, 2003), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Insightful and accessible critique of postmodern ethics.

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9780819566034 | 1 edition (Wesleyan Univ Pr, March 5, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Talmudic scholar and postmodern philosopher Emmanuel Levinas was one of the 20th-century's most important philosophers.

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9780801438417 | Cornell Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $32.50

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9780801487804 | Reprint edition (Cornell Univ Pr, February 1, 2002), cover price $24.95

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Product Description: In this investigation of the contemporary notion of evil, C. Fred Alford asks what we can learn about this concept, and about ourselves, by examining a society where it is unknown―where language contains no word that equates to the English term "evil...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780801436666 | Cornell Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $66.50 | About this edition: In this investigation of the contemporary notion of evil, C.

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Product Description: C. Fred Alford interviewed working people, prisoners, and college students in order to discover how people experience evil―in themselves, in others, and in the world. What people meant by evil, he found, was a profound, inchoate feeling of dread so overwhelming that they tried to inflict it on others to be rid of it themselves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780801434303 | Cornell Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $45.50 | About this edition: C.

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9781560024743, titled "The Man Who Couldn't Lie: Essays and Stories About an Ancient Quarrel" | Univ Editions, March 1, 1995, cover price $9.00

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Psychoanalytic readings of literature are often reductionist, seeking to find in great works of the past support for current psychoanalytic tenets. In this book C. Fred Alford begins with the possibility that the insights into human needs and aspirations contained in Greek tragedy might be more profound than psychoanalytic theory. He offers his own psychoanalytic interpretation of the tragedies, one that reconstructs the dramatists' views of the world and, when necessary, enlarges psychoanalysis to take these views into account.Alford draws on an eclectic mixture of psychoanalytic theories―in particular the work of Melanie Klein, Robert Jay Lifton, and Jacques Lacan―to help him illuminate the concerns of the Greek poets. He discusses not only well-known tragedies, such as Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy, Sophocles' Theban plays, and Euripides' Medea and Bacchae, but also lesser-known works, such as Sophocles' Philoctetes and Euripides' so-called romantic comedies. Alford examines the fundamental concerns of the tragedies: how to live in a world in which justice and power often seem to have nothing to do with each other; how to confront death; how to deal with the fear that our aggression will overflow and violate all that we care about; how to make this inhumane world a more human place. Two assumptions of the tragic poets could, he argues, enrich psychoanalysis―that people are responsible without being free, and that pity is the most civilizing connection. The poets understood these things, Alford believes, because they never flinched in the face of the suffering and constraint that are at the center of human existence.

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9780300057089 | Yale Univ Pr, December 1, 1992, cover price $50.00

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9780300105261 | Yale Univ Pr, November 30, 1992, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Psychoanalytic readings of literature are often reductionist, seeking to find in great works of the past support for current psychoanalytic tenets.

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Product Description: The self is a topic that crosses a great many disciplinary boundaries; concepts of the self are central to political science, psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology, and classical studies. In this book, C.Fred Alford sets forth a psychoanalytic account of the self and applies it to texts by Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rawis, and Rouseau in order to draw out their implicit, often inchoate, assumptions about the self...read more

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9780300049220 | Yale Univ Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: The self is a topic that crosses a great many disciplinary boundaries; concepts of the self are central to political science, psychoanalysis, philosophy, sociology, and classical studies.

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Product Description: This riveting memoir, a primary source for the NBC miniseries Uprising, tells the story of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defy the Nazis against impossible odds. Kazik (played by Stephen Moyer in the film) and his fellow Jews smuggle in arms and explosives, perform acts of resistance, hold off the Nazi army for almost a month, and rescue the few surviving Jews after the Ghetto is destroyed...read more

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9780300045062 | Yale Univ Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: This riveting memoir, a primary source for the NBC miniseries Uprising, tells the story of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defy the Nazis against impossible odds.

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9780300105582 | Yale Univ Pr, January 11, 1989, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This riveting memoir, a primary source for the NBC miniseries Uprising, tells the story of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defy the Nazis against impossible odds.

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Product Description: Book by Alford, C. Fred

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9780813008172 | Univ Pr of Florida, October 1, 1985, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Book by Alford, C.

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