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SUMMARY:Vengefulness and Punishment in Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘An Eye for an Eye.’
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LOCATION:Old Physics Building\, Melbourne\, Australia\, 3010
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> Written just after the liberation of France and during the trials of collaborators\, Beauvoir&rsquo\;s little-discussed essay &lsquo\;An Eye for an Eye&rsquo\; (1946) describes the worst of crimes as those that reduce the human being to a thing. She suggests that we can only truly understand reactions of outrage to these crimes\, such as vengefulness\, in these extreme situations when we feel them in their &lsquo\;true concreteness&rsquo\;. Beauvoir sets out to understand why what she sees as the need for revenge and a restored reciprocity in the light of these crimes usually cannot be satisfied. According to her\, both private revenge and state punishment generally fail to bring about the perpetrator&rsquo\;s recognition of what they have done\, their own ambiguous existence\, or an acknowledgement of the perspective of the victim. I argue that the essay works to undermine Beauvoir&rsquo\;s defence of her refusal to sign the petition for clemency for Robert Brasillach\, an anti-Semitic writer tried\, convicted and executed for treason.&nbsp\; Her apparent support for capital punishment in that case is in tension with the account of vengefulness and punishment in the essay and with her developed existential ethics.</p>
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