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Norrie, Alan W. (2016) Critical realism and the metaphysics of justice. Journal of Critical Realism, 15 (4). 391-408 . doi:10.1080/14767430.2016.1195568 ISSN 1476-7430.
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2016.1195568
Abstract
This essay concerns the problems of guilt that emerge in connection with genocide discussed after the Second World War by Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry and Primo Levi. It looks at the different forms of guilt: of perpetrators, bystanders, victims who became perpetrators, and of collective guilt. It argues that a way to understand the structure of guilt is to consider the idea of survivor guilt, and its link to an underlying metaphysics of guilt. It considers primarily Levi’s account of survivor and accomplice guilt, and the ‘grey zone’ where judgements become problematic. The aim is to consider the ethical structure that supports our understanding of specific guilt categories, and this is linked to Roy Bhaskar’s account of MetaReality and the sense of a unity or identity that operates at a deeper level than the difference, conflict and change that the other levels of his thought seek to understand.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Critical Realism | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1476-7430 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 15 July 2016 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 15 | ||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||
| Page Range: | 391-408 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/14767430.2016.1195568 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 June 2016 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 July 2017 | ||||||
| Conference Paper Type: | Other | ||||||
| Title of Event: | 18th annual IACR Conference | ||||||
| Type of Event: | Conference |
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