- Title Pages
- Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity
-
Part I Transformations in Social Experience and Subjectivity -
1 The Vanishing Subject -
2 The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity -
3 How the Body Speaks -
4 Anthropological Observation and Self-formation -
Part II Political Subjects -
5 Hamlet in Purgatory -
6 America's Transient Mental Illness -
7 Violence and the Politics of Remorse -
Part III Madness and Social Suffering -
8 The Subject of Mental Illness -
9 The “other” of Culture in Psychosis -
10 Hoarders and Scrappers -
Part IV Life Technologies -
11 Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? -
12 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace -
13 “To Be Freed From the Infirmity of (the) Age” -
14 A Life - Epilogue: To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable
- Index
Violence and the Politics of Remorse
Violence and the Politics of Remorse
Lessons from South Africa
- Chapter:
- (p.179) 7 Violence and the Politics of Remorse
- Source:
- Subjectivity
- Author(s):
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter discusses the working ethics created around the corpses of apartheid in the new South Africa. It shows that, in this context, hope comes not from principles created in the privileged contexts of Western countries, but from “cultures of terror,” also discussing the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is meant to become the fabric of a new social contract and the basis for building a new citizen. Suffering and therapeutic practices are also studied.
Keywords: working ethics, South Africa, cultures of terror, Truth and Reconciliation, social contract, new citizen, suffering, therapeutic practices
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- Title Pages
- Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity
-
Part I Transformations in Social Experience and Subjectivity -
1 The Vanishing Subject -
2 The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity -
3 How the Body Speaks -
4 Anthropological Observation and Self-formation -
Part II Political Subjects -
5 Hamlet in Purgatory -
6 America's Transient Mental Illness -
7 Violence and the Politics of Remorse -
Part III Madness and Social Suffering -
8 The Subject of Mental Illness -
9 The “other” of Culture in Psychosis -
10 Hoarders and Scrappers -
Part IV Life Technologies -
11 Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? -
12 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace -
13 “To Be Freed From the Infirmity of (the) Age” -
14 A Life - Epilogue: To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable
- Index