Perjury and Pardon, Volume I: Volume 1 Derrida Jacques
Perjury and Pardon, Volume I: Volume 1 Derrida Jacques An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In…
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Perjury and Pardon, Volume I: Volume 1 Derrida Jacques
An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility. "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 cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales in Paris in the late 1990s.
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