{"product_id":"original-forgiveness-paperback-softback-9780810142787","title":"Original Forgiveness (Paperback \/ softback) 9780810142787","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOriginal Forgiveness\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicolas de Warren (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810142787, Northwestern University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 December 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e304 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.415 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eOriginal Forgiveness\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich intellectual feast, its pages filled with equally adept and illuminating readings of texts philosophical and literary. Its argument about the nature of 'forgiveness' prior to injury or resentment is truly original, in every sense, as is its discussion of the deep relationship between forgiveness and trust. This is a remarkable and wise book that reveals how, why, and when we forgive and trust.\" - Ashraf H. A. Rushdy, author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Injury: A Historical Anatomy of Forgiveness, Resentment, and Apology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOriginal Forgiveness\u003c\/i\u003e, Nicolas de Warren challenges the widespread assumption that forgiveness is always a response to something that has incited it. Rather than considering forgiveness exclusively in terms of an encounter between individuals or groups after injury, he argues that availability for the possibility of forgiveness represents an \u003ci\u003eoriginal forgiveness\u003c\/i\u003e, an essential condition for the prospect of human relations. De Warren develops this notion of original forgiveness through a reflection on the indispensability of trust for human existence, as well as an examination of the refusal or unavailability to forgive in the aftermath of moral harms.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDe Warren engages in a critical discussion of philosophical figures, including Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Mikhail Bakhtin, Edmund Husserl, Gabriel Marcel, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean AmÉry, and of literary works by William Shakespeare, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Heinrich von Kleist, Simon Wiesenthal, Herman Melville, and Maurice Sendak. He uses this discussion to show that in trusting another person, we must trust in ourselves to remain available to the possibility of forgiveness for those occasions when the other person betrays a trust, without thereby forgiving anything in advance. Original forgiveness is to remain the other person's keeper - even when the other has caused harm. Likewise, being another's keeper calls upon an original beseeching for forgiveness, given the inevitable possibility of blemish or betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e1. Upon Trust We Stand, Upon Trust We Fall\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. Forgiveness and the Human Condition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. The Unforgivable and Forgiving Without Forgiveness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. The Unforgivable and the Inhuman Condition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. '\u003cbr\u003eI wonder men dare trust themselves with men'\u003cbr\u003e: The Forked Significance of Trust\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. '\u003cbr\u003eNo cause, no cause'\u003cbr\u003e: Breakages of Trust and the Availability of Forgiveness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. The Death of the Other as Murder\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e8. The Trauma of the Good and the Anarchy of Forgiveness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAfterword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676748181784,"sku":"9780810142787","price":25.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/original-forgiveness-paperback-softback-9780810142787","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}