Vladimir Jankélévitch and the Question of Forgiveness

Herausgeber: Udoff, Alan

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays focus on the work of Vladimir Jankélévitch as a moral philosopher, particularly that aspect of his work dealing with the question of forgiveness. They treat topics such as the place of moral philosophy in relation to his work as a whole, his relationship to contemporary French thought, and the backgrounds of classical Judaic tradition and world literature. The centerpiece of this tableau is Jankélévitch's book Le Pardon (Forgiveness). Chief among the distinguishing characteristics is its rigorous defense of what might be termed a forgiveness free of the entanglements that taint the common understanding of forgiveness-what Jankélévitch refers to as pseudo-forgiveness. The advocacy of forgiveness in the name of political or social expediency, as well as the psychological benefit for the victim, are similarly repudiated. In their place, Jankélévitch substitutes a radical forgiveness that is "initial, sudden, spontaneous"-not able to erase the past, but able to create a new future and, thereby, a new relationship to the past. He does not permit even this future, however, to serve as forgiveness's justification. For him, beyond all justifications, beyond justice itself, forgiveness is a gift akin to love.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780739176672
• ISBN-10: 0739176676
• Artikelnr.: 36720676

Autorenporträt

Edited by Alan Udoff

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments Exordium Part 1: Forgiveness: Text and Context Chapter 1:
Vladimir Jankélévitch at the Colloques des intellectuels juifs de langue
française Chapter 2: Jankélévitch and the Metaphysics of Forgiveness Part
2: Theory and Praxis Chapter 3: Guilty Forgiveness Chapter 4: The Great
Distress Chapter 5: Travelling Light: The Conditions of Unconditional
Forgiveness in Levinas and Jankélévitch Chapter 6: Forgiveness and Its
Limits Chapter 7: Forgiveness and "Should We Pardon Them?": The Pardon and
The Imprescriptible Part 3: The Witness of Literature Chapter 8: New
Spartans: Jankélévitch, Scheler and Tolkien on Vanity Chapter 9: To Atone
and To Forgive: Jaspers, Jankélévitch/Derrida, and the Possibility of
Forgiveness Part 4: At the Crossroads of Theology Chapter 10: The Ethics of
Honor and the Possibility of Promise Chapter 11: "After such knowledge,
what forgiveness?" On Jankélévitch and the Question of Repentance List of
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