The Martin Buber Society of Fellows explores how
individuals, groups, and societies in a variety of cultural contexts, political
settings, and time periods respond to the perpetration of injustices.
Approaching the concepts of revenge, retribution, and reconciliation from
interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, it opens a fruitful
discussion among scholars of history, literature, psychology, biology,
political science, communications, sociology, religious studies, law, and
philosophy. The book investigates how social groups reach and maintain an
equilibrium between an emotional thirst for an immediate and unmediated
response to injustices and societies’ need to adjudicate measures and sanctions
that seem proportional to the breech of justice.
This volume is the third in the Martin Buber Society of Fellows Notebook Series.