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Perjury and Pardon, Volume I: Volume 1

Perjury and Pardon, Volume I: Volume 1

Derrida, Jacques
Wills, David
Michaud, Ginette

Hardcover

Series: Seminars of Jacques Derrida

PhilosophyMental Health

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ISBN10: 0226819175
ISBN13: 9780226819174
Publisher: Univ Of Chicago Pr
Published: Sep 27 2022
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

One only ever asks forgiveness for what is unforgivable. From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon, a two-year series of seminars given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris in the late 1990s. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility. His primary goal is to develop what he calls a problematic of lying by studying diverse forms of betrayal: infidelity, denial, false testimony, perjury, unkept promises, desecration, sacrilege, and blasphemy.

Although forgiveness is a notion inherited from multiple traditions, the process of forgiveness eludes those traditions, disturbing the categories of knowledge, sense, history, and law that attempt to circumscribe it. Derrida insists on the unconditionality of forgiveness and shows how its complex temporality destabilizes all ideas of presence and even of subjecthood. For Derrida, forgiveness cannot be reduced to repentance, punishment, retribution, or salvation, and it is inseparable from, and haunted by, the notion of perjury. Through close readings of Kant, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Plato, Jankélévitch, Baudelaire, and Kafka, as well as biblical texts, Derrida explores diverse notions of the evil or malignancy of lying while developing a complex account of forgiveness across different traditions.

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