Forgiveness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226045658)

Philosopher Vladimir Jank駘騅itch has only recently begun to receive his due from the English-speaking world, thanks in part to discussions of his thought by Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel L騅inas, and Paul Ricoeur. His international readers have long valued his unique, interdisciplinary approach to philosophy's greatest questions and his highly readable writing style.
Originally published in 1967, Le Pardon, or Forgiveness, is one of Jank駘騅itch's most influential works. In it, he characterizes the ultimate ethical act of forgiving as behaving toward the perpetrator as if he or she had never committed the action, rather than merely forgetting or rationalizing it--a controversial notion when considering events as heinous as the Holocaust.
Like so many of Jank駘騅itch's works, Forgiveness transcends standard treatments of moral problems, not simply generating a treatise on one subject but incorporating discussions of topics such as free will, giving, creativity, and temporality. Translator Andrew Kelley masterfully captures Jank駘騅itch's melodic prose and, in a substantive introduction, reviews his life and intellectual contributions. Forgiveness is an essential part of that legacy, and this indispensable English translation provides key tools for understanding one of the great Western philosophers of the twentieth century.

Author: Vladimir Jank駘騅itch
ISBN-10: 022604565X
ISBN-13: 9780226045658
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 02/27/2013
Pages: 204
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d