Forgiveness: Probing the Boundaries

Forgiveness:  Probing the Boundaries
edited by Stephen Bloch-Schulman and David White

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Contents

Introduction
Stephen Bloch-Schulman and David White

Part I  Conceptual Issues
Forgiveness and Moral Solidarity
Alice MacLachlan

Why Self-forgiveness Needs Third-Party Forgiveness
Kathryn J. Norlock

The Conditional Case for Unconditional Forgiveness
Jeremy Watkins

Impossible Forgiveness
Paul van Tongeren

Part II  Philosophers and Forgiveness
To Exceed the Scene of Economy:  Derrida’s Forgiveness and Responsibility
Niva Arav

Forgiving Derrida:  From Terrorism to Self-Forgiveness
Michael Strawser

No Freedom without Forgiveness?  The Problem of Beginning and Postponement
Verena Rauen

The Necessity of Forgiveness for the Public Realm:  On Hannah Arendt’s Public Conception of Forgiveness
Stephen Bloch-Schulman

Blessing Those that Curse You:  On Lonergan, Forgiveness, and the Problem of Evil
Timothy Burns

‘To Forgive or Not to Forgive’:  Ibn “Arabi and the Qur’anic Hermeneutic of Forgiveness
Qaiser Shahzad

Part III  Personal Experiences of Forgiveness
Transformative Forgiveness:  From Self-Healing to Others-Healing
Gabriela Mihalache

Exploring the Origins of Forgiveness in Children:  An Experimental Analogue Study
Tomoko Yamaguchi and Ian M. Evans

Ginn Fourie and Letlapa Mphahlele – Two Remarkable South Africans on a Journey of Forgiveness:  A View Through a Transpersonal Lens
David Lipschitz

An Exploration of Forgiveness, Empowerment and the Journey of Healing
Margaret E. Smith

“Women can be Surprisingly Forgiving”: Coetzee’s Disgrace
Yael Maurer

Part IV  Experiences of Forgiveness and Communities
Trauma and Forgiveness:  Comparing Experiences from Turkey and Guatemala
Ayse Betul Celik and Riva Kantowitz

The Place of Forgiveness in Transitional Justice Practices
Neelke Doorn

Forgiveness-Performing the Boundaries:  An Investigation of Staged Acts of Forgiveness in Maxim Biller’s Harlem Holocaust and Die Tochter
Daphne Seemann

(Women) Civilians After Wars:  Any Nation State Asking for their Forgiveness?
Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen

Gunter Grass:  The Forgiveness of Danzig
Cornelia Caseau

The Spiritual and Psychological Impact of Forgiveness on Victims of Violent Crime
Barbara Flood and Christina Tomacic-Niaros

Forgiveness and Disclosure Scandals in Romania
Adriana Mica