TY  - BOOK
AU  - Esparza,Daniel R.
TI  - Forgiving Philosophy: Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Arendt on the Question of Forgiveness 
SN  - 9783111555751
U1  - 100 
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Arendt, Hannah
KW  - Augustinus, Aurelius, Heiliger
KW  - Kierkegaard, Søren
KW  - Vergebung
KW  - Augustine
KW  - Forgiveness
KW  - Hannah Arendt
KW  - Søren Kierkegaard
N1  - Frontmatter --; NOTE TO THE READER --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Contents --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1 QUIA ABSURDUM --; CHAPTER 2 AUGUSTINE --; CHAPTER 3 KIERKEGAARD --; CHAPTER 4 ARENDT --; CONCLUDING REMARKS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - This book explores forgiveness as a philosophical matter. Responding to the curious omission of forgiveness in much of Western philosophy, it examines common themes and divergences on forgiveness in the works of Augustine, Kierkegaard, and Arendt. These writers understood forgiveness as a paradox—it must be contained to be given (Augustine), granted-yet-not-granted (Kierkegaard), and forgotten the moment it is given, as if never given at all (Arendt). Drawing on these insights, can forgiveness be then thought of as a hidden existential capacity and not as a magnanimous display of mercy? Can we imagine forgiveness as undoing the transgression we see, and secretly engaging with the imperceptible impossibility of undoing what has indeed been done?
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111555805
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111555805
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111555805/original
ER  -