Guilt

Katharina von Kellenbach is Professor emerita of Religious Studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland and project coordinator at the Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin. She is the author of Anti-Judaism in Feminist Religious Writings, The Mark of Cain: Guilt and Denial in the Lives of Nazi Perpetrators, and Composting Guilt: The Purification of Memory after Atrocity. Matthias Buschmeier is an Associate Professor (Akademischer Oberrat) of German Literature at Bielefeld University, Germany. He has published widely on German and European Literature and the History of Knowledge from the 18th to 20th centuries. His areas of research include the relation between literature and politics, cultural theory, hermeneutics and pragmatism, philology, the historiography of world literature, and discourses of knowledge.

Introduction
Matthias Buschmeier and Katharina von Kellenbach

Part I: Guilt as a Prosocial Force in Interpersonal Relations

Guilt as a Positive Motivation for Action? On Vicarious Penance in the History of Christianity
Meinolf Schumacher

White Guilt in the Summer of Black Lives Matter
Lisa B. Spanierman

From Shame to Guilt: Indonesian Strategies against Child Marriage
Nelly van Doorn-Harder

Historical and Survivor Guilt in the Incorporation of Refugees in Germany
John Borneman

Part II: Transforming Guilt Into (Restorative) Justice

The Productivity of Guilt in Criminal Law Discourses
Klaus Günther

Making Guilt Productive: The Case for Restorative Justice in Criminal Law
Valerij Zisman

Guilt With and Without Punishment: On Moral and Legal Guilt in Contexts of Impunity
Dominik Hofmann

Post-War Justice for the Nazi Murders of Patients in Kherson, Ukraine: Comparing German and Soviet Trials
Tanja Penter

Part III: Guilt as Creative Irritation

Rituals of Repentance: Joshua Oppenheimer's "The Act of Killing"
Katharina von Kellenbach

Performing Guilt: How the Theater of the 1960s Challenged German Memory Culture
Saskia Fischer

Guilty Dreams: Culpability and Reactionary Violence in Gujarat
Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi

The Guilt of Warriors
Susan Derwin

Part IV: The Politics of Guilt Negotiations

The Art of Apology: On the True and the Phony in Political Apology
Maria-Sibylla Lotter

Relationships in Transition: Negotiating Accountability and Productive Guilt in Timor Leste
Victor Igreja

Negotiating Germany's War Guilt. On the Emergence of a New International Law in the First World War
Ethel Matala de Mazza

The Absence of Productive Guilt in Shame and Disgrace: Misconceptions in and of German Memory Culture from 1945-2020
Matthias Buschmeier