Forgiveness: promise, possibility, & failure / edited by Geoffrey Karabin; Karolina Wigura.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Karabin, Geoffrey, editor.

Wigura, Karolina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forgiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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?

Contents:

""Front Cover ""; ""Inside Cover ""; ""Advisory Board ""; ""ISBN ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Part 1: What is Forgiveness? ""; ""Forgiveness: Steve Larocco ""; ""Part 2: The Aftermath of Colonialism ""; ""When Saying Sorry Just Isn't Enough: Francesca Dominello ""; ""Part 3: Contemporary European Political Dimensions ""; ""Peter Handke: Cornelia Caseau ""; ""Probing the Shady Side of Forgiveness: Bernhard Forchtner ""; ""Part 4: Philosophical Issues ""; ""Forgiveness and Betrayal: Cynthia Townley ""; ""Part 5: Jankelevitch and Derrida ""

""Does Unforgivable Exist? Karolina Wigura """"Aporia of Forgivensss: Mohsen Ghasemi ""; ""Part 6: Religious Dimensions ""; ""Revealing the Religious Underpinnings of Poitical Apologies: Danielle Celermajer ""; ""In Search of Forgiveness: Fergus Hogan ""; ""The African Model of Forgiveness: Boniface Anusiem ""; ""Part 7: Forgiveness and the Law ""; ""Reconciling Irreconcilable Differences through Forgiveness: Carla S. Ross ""; ""Coupling and Decoupling Remorse and Forgiveness is Legal Discourse: Richard Weisman ""; ""Part 8: Arendt and Levinas ""

""Tikkun Olam through Forgiveness and Promise: Lucy Tatman """"Undoing What Has Been Done: Christopher R. Allers ""; ""Part 9: Psychological Perspectives ""; ""Forgiveness as a Theme in the Scripts of Guillermo Arriaga: Thomas Riegler ""; ""Part 10: Victims, Perpetrators and Bystanders ""; ""How Victims and Offenders Use Forgiveness and Apology: Yoona Lee, Kathleen Malley-Morrison and Malcolm W. Watson ""; ""Moral Bystanders and the Virtue of Forgiveness: Linda Radzik ""; ""Prisoners and Forgiveness: Marieke Smit ""; ""Part 11: Victims of Violence ""

""The Community Response to Violence: Barbar Flood and Christina Tomacic-Niaros """"Islamic Suicide Bombing, Camus and the Question of Forgiveness: Geoffrey Karabin ""; ""Forgiveness after Torture: Diana Medlicott ""; ""Part 12: 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 ""; ""Back Cover ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-116-9

9781848881167

OCLC:

891397635

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881167 DOI