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De 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.
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Pages | 304 |
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Dimensions | 229 x 152 |
Date Published | 30 Dec 2020 |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Series | Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy |
Subject/s | Philosophy   Phenomenology & Existentialism   |
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Upon Trust We Stand, Upon Trust We Fall
- 2. Forgiveness and the Human Condition
- 3. The Unforgivable and Forgiving Without Forgiveness
- 4. The Unforgivable and the Inhuman Condition
- 5. 'I wonder men dare trust themselves with men': The Forked Significance of Trust
- 6. 'No cause, no cause': Breakages of Trust and the Availability of Forgiveness
- 7. The Death of the Other as Murder
- 8. The Trauma of the Good and the Anarchy of Forgiveness
- Afterword
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