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Thomas Brudholm



MA, Philosophy & Danish and Ph.D., Philosophy
Consulting Researcher, research unit on Holocaust and genocide
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Personal CV

Expertise
Ethical and philosophical perspectives on the Holocaust, genocide, commemoration, trials, truth commissions (transitional justice); concepts of evil, forgiveness, justice and reconciliation; the role of religious thinking and perspectives in responses to mass atrocities; the ethics of remembrance; the role of emotions to the politics of the past.

Selected projects and programmes
  • The role of religious ideas and actors in responses to mass atrocity.
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  • Resentment, reconciliation and the ethics of non-forgiveness.

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    Selected publications
  • Resentment's Virtue: Jean Améry and the Refusal to Forgive, Temple University Press, 2008. (http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1879_reg.html)
  • "A Light in the Darkness? Philosophical Reflections on Historians’ Assessments of the Rescue of the Jews in Denmark in 1943". In Philosophy on the Border, ed. R. Schott, Museum Tusculanum Press, 2007.
  • Efter folkedrab: En flerfaglig undervisningsbog, ed. with M. Mennecke, DIIS Forlag, 2007.
  • "Vendepunkter mellem konflikt og forsoning – En filosofisk kritik" , University Press of Southern Denmark, 2007.
  • "Prosecuting Genocide" (review essay), Journal of Genocide Research, 9.3, 2007.
  • "Surveying a Gap: A Philosophical Perspective on Historians' Responses to Discourses on the 'Bystanders'", Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History, 11.3, 2006.
  • "A Confiscated Past: Jean Améry on Home and Exile", The Hedgehog Review, 7.3, 2006.
  • "Revisiting Resentments: Jean Améry and the Dark Side of Forgiveness and Reconciliation", Journal of Human Rights,5.1, 2006.
  • Erindringens Fremtid, Auschwitz-dag i Danmark, ed. with Martin Mennecke, Lindhardt & Ringhof, 2004.
  • ”The Justice of Reconciliation”, Hypatia, 18.2, 2003.
  • "Conviction and Critique: Addressing the Skeptic", K. Hastrup, ed.: Human Rights on Common Grounds, Kluwer, 2001.
  • The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocities: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, contributor and co-editor (with T. Cushman), Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

    • Selected research related activities
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Rights (http://www.jhr.uconn.edu/Pages/board.htm).
  • Member of the editorial board of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History (Vallentine Mitchell).
  • External examiner for Kultur- og Sprogmødestudier og Minoritetsstudier (RUC, KU).
  • Peer reviewer for a variety of academic institutions, publishers and journals.
  • Visiting scholar at the University of Copenhagen, Center for Subjectivity Research (Spring 2007) and CERI/Sciences Po in Paris (Fall 2007).
  • Affiliated with research networks and associations related to studies of genocide and human rights, religion and politics, evil, ethics and philosophy of religion.
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    Updated: 12/11/09