In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role. For a long time, the idea was widespread that a forgiving attitude - overcoming feelings of resentment and the desire for revenge - was always virtuous. Recently, however, this idea has been questioned. The contributors to this volume do not take sides for or against forgiveness but rather examine its meaning and function against the backdrop of a more complex understanding of moral repair in a variety of social, circumstantial, and cultural contexts. The book aims to gain a differentiated understanding of the European traditions regarding forgiveness, revenge, and moral repair that have shaped our moral intuitions today whilst also examining examples from other cultural contexts (Asia and Africa, in particular) to explore how different cultural traditions deal with the need for moral repair after wrongdoing.

In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role. For a long time, the idea was widespread that a forgiving attitude - overcoming feelings of resentment and the desire for revenge - was always virtuous. Recently, however, this idea has been questioned. The contributors to this volume do not take sides for or against forgiveness but rather examine its meaning and function against the backdrop of a more complex understanding of moral repair in a variety of social, circumstantial, and cultural contexts. The book aims to gain a differentiated understanding of the European traditions regarding forgiveness, revenge, and moral repair that have shaped our moral intuitions today whilst also examining examples from other cultural contexts (Asia and Africa, in particular) to explore how different cultural traditions deal with the need for moral repair after wrongdoing.

"Was ist Lagerliteratur?" lautet die Frage, der die Beitrage nachgehen, die in diesem Band versammelt sind. In drei Sektionen fragen die Beitrager*innen nach den asthetischen Spezifika der Literatur aus Lagern und Ghettos, stellen bisher wenig erforschte Lagertexte vor und diskutieren didaktische Dimensionen der Auseinandersetzung mit Lagertexten. Der Band verfolgt das Ziel, Lagerliteratur als einen eigenstandigen asthetischen Komplex zu profilieren und sein Verhaltnis zur Holocaustliteratur genauer zu bestimmen. Lagerliteratur wird dabei als ein vielstimmiger literarisch-kultureller Kommunikationsprozess und als ein pluraler Diskurs vorgestellt, der immer auch die Reflexion daruber einschliesst, wie diese Literatur sein kann und sein sollte. In diesem Sinne ist die Frage "Was ist Lagerliteratur?" als eine noch offene zu verstehen und der Band als eine Einladung, sich mit ihr zu beschaftigen.