Forgiveness: Promise, Possibility and Failure
Edited by Geoffrey Karabin and Karolina Wigura
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This inter-disciplinary collection explores the wealth of nuances surrounding the concept and practice of forgiving. The essays within this work ask what it means to forgive, what constitutes an appropriate space to forgive, what is to be expected of the victim and wrongdoer, what actions must be connected to political forms of forgiveness, and, among many others, what does self-forgiveness entail?
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Key Words: Forgiveness, Apology, Reconciliation, Derrida, Lacrocco, Dominello, Multani, Caseau, Forchtner, Adamos, Townley, Wigura, Ghasemi, Celermajer, Hogan, Anusiem, Ross, Tatman, Allers, Lee, Malley-Morrison, Watson, Radzik, Smit, Flood, Tomacic-Niaros, Karabin, Medlicott, Jerath, Reitsma.
Contents
Introduction
Geoffrey Karabin & Karolina Wigura
Part 1: What is Forgiveness?
Forgiveness: A Quiet Assault on the Malicious
Stephen Larocco
Part 2: The Aftermath of Colonialism
When Saying Sorry Just Isn’t Enough
Francesca Dominello
Forgiveness is the Only Final Solution: A Reading of the Play ‘Final Solutions’ by Mahesh Dattani
Angelie Multani
Part 3: Contemporary European Political Dimensions
Peter Handke: The Moravian Night or the Request for Forgiveness
Cornelia Caseau
Probing the Shady Side of Forgiveness: The Judge-Penitent Discourse as a Conceptualisation of the Misuse of Public Confessions of Guilt
Bernhard Forchtner
Part 4: Philosophical Issues
Is Forgiveness a Good Thing?
Maria Magoula Adamos
Forgiveness and Betrayal
Cynthia Townley
Part 5: Jankélévitch and Derrida
Does Unforgivable Exist? On Jankélévitch’s and Derrida’s Theories of Forgiveness and Unforgivable
Karolina Wigura
Aporia of Forgiveness
Mohsen Ghasemi
Part 6: Religious Dimensions
Revealing the Religious Underpinnings of Political Apologies
Danielle Celermajer
In Search of Forgiveness: Men and Abortion in Post-Catholic Ireland
Fergus Hogan
The African Model of Forgiveness: A Contribution to Social Reconstruction and World Peace
Boniface Anusiem
Part 7: Forgiveness and the Law
Reconciling Irreconcilable Differences through Forgiveness
Carla S. Ross
Coupling and Decoupling Remorse and Forgiveness in Legal Discourse
Richard Weisman
Part 8: Arendt and Levinas
Tikkun Olam through Forgiveness and Promise: Renewing the World in the Thought of Hannah Arendt
Lucy Tatman
Undoing What Has Been Done: Hannah Arendt and Emmanuel Levinas on Forgiveness
Christopher R. Allers
Part 9: Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders
How Victims and Offenders Use Forgiveness and Apology: Relation of Self and Other Responses
Yoona Lee, Kathleen Malley-Morrison and Malcolm W. Watson
Moral Bystanders and the Virtue of Forgiveness
Linda Radzik
Prisoners and Forgiveness
Marieke Smit
Part 10: Victims of Violence
The Community Response to Violence: Do Rituals of Healing Support Forgiveness?
Barbara Flood and Christina Tomacic-Niaros
Islamic Suicide Bombing and the Question of Forgiveness
Geoffrey Karabin
Forgiveness after Torture: Narratives of Grief and Grace
Diana Medlicott
Part 11: Russian Literature, Russian Culture
Why can Russia no Longer Forgive?
Ritoo M. Jerath
If God Can’t Forgive, What Becomes of Harmony?
Regan Lance Reitsma
About the Editors
Geoffrey Karabin is a graduate student at Villanova University. He also teaches as an adjunct at Villanova University, Neumann University, and the University of Pennsylvania. His primary interest regards the relationship between a belief in personal immortality and violence.
Karolina Wigura is a Ph.D. student in Institute for Sociology, Warsaw, Poland and in Institute for Philosophy, Munich, Germany, as well as a journalist at a political and cultural weekly Europa published in Poland.
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