Guilt, Forgiveness, and Moral Repair

Maria-Sibylla Lotter, Professor of Philosophy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. Maria-Sibylla Lotter studied philosophy, cultural anthropology and religious studies in diverse places in Germany and the USA. Since 2014 she has been a full professor at the Philosophical Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum. Her main focus today is on practical philosophy, especially on the topics of guilt and responsibility, lies and fraud, and intercultural ethics.

Saskia Fischer, Research Associate in German Studies and Comparative Literature, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany. Saskia Fischer has written her PhD-dissertation on ritual and rituality in German drama after 1945. Her main research interests are camp- and holocaust literature, German-Jewish literature, the guilt-discourse in German literature after 1945, and the relationship of art and religion. She was the academic coordinator of the research group 'Felix Culpa'? - Guilt as a Culturally Productive Force at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld University. In 2020 became a research associate in German Studies and Comparative Literature at the Leibniz Universität Hannover.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Forgiveness and other Elements of Moral Repair.- Chapter 2: Overview of Contributions.- Part I: Western Traditions of Conceptualizing Forgiveness.- Chapter 3: Forgiving Sin.- Chapter 4: Interrupting the Cycle of Violence without Forgiveness? The Story of Joseph in the Bible and Early Jewish Literature.- Chapter 5: "You are better than your deeds": The Modern Theory of Forgiveness and Its Christian Background.- Chapter 6: A Christian View: Joseph Butler on Resentment and Forgiveness.- Chapter 7: Verzeihen but not Vergeben: A Distinction Drawn from German Language Usage.- Chapter 8: Amnesty - Amnesia - Anamnesis: Temporal Relations and Structural Antagonisms in the Moral Economy of Forgiveness and Reconciliation.- Chapter 9: Just another "Legend of the Forgiving Jew"? The Art of Coping with Wrongdoing and How Literature Can Assist.- Chapter 10: On Revenge: The Other of Forgiveness.- Part II: Cases and Concepts of Moral Repair and Forgiveness from Diverse CulturalViewpoints.- Chapter 11: Karma in Buddhism and the Problems of Cross-Cultural and Cross-Religious Comparison of 'Guilt' and 'Forgiveness'.- Chapter 12: Forgiveness in Neo-Confucianism.- Chapter 13: Practicing Forgiveness in Chos n Korea: With Some Observations on Confucian Normative Discourse.- Chapter 14: The Place of Forgiveness in Conflict Management: Scale-bound Institutional Arrangements in the Moroccan Nomosphere.- Chapter 15: Negotiating Truth-Seeking, Ritual Television, and Healing in Mozambique.- Chapter 16: Balancing Individual Dignity and Communal Indignation in African Religious Ethics of Forgiveness.