Phenomenology and Forgiveness

Marguerite La Caze is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her publications include Wonder and Generosity: Their Role in Ethics and Politics, (2013) The Analytic Imaginary (2002), Integrity and the Fragile Self, with Damian Cox and Michael Levine (2003) and articles on a range of European philosophers.

• Introduction: Marguerite La Caze, Situating Forgiveness Within PhenomenologyPart I: Experiences of Forgiveness1.Shannon Hoff, The Right and the Righteous: Hegel on Confession, Forgiveness, and the Necessary Imperfection of Political Action2.Nicolas de Warren, For the Love of the World: Redemption and Forgiveness in Arendt3.Simone Drichel, “A Forgiveness that Remakes the World”: Trauma, Vulnerability and Forgiveness in the Work of Emmanuel Levinas4.Peter Banki, Hyper-Ethical Forgiveness and the InexpiablePart II: Paradoxes of Forgiveness5.Gaëlle Fiasse, Forgiveness in Ricœur6.Jennifer Ang, Self-Forgiveness in the Gray Zone7.Antonio Calcagno, Can a Community Forgive? Edith Stein on the Lived Experience of Communal Forgiveness8.Geoffrey Adelsberg, Collective Forgiveness in the Context of Ongoing HarmsPart III: Ethics and Politics of Forgiveness9.Matthew Sharpe, Camus and Forgiveness: After the Fall10.Daniel Brennan, Václav Havel's Call for Forgiveness11.Karen Pagani, Towar

The diverse essays comprising Phenomenology and Forgiveness together form a rich resource for anyone who wants to explore the intellectual and moral challenges encapsulated in the idea of forgiveness, whether they are committed to phenomenology or not. At the same time, as Ann V. Murphy argues in the book's final chapter, there is a kind of synergy between forgiveness and phenomenology. It is on this basis that one can also say that the book shows the potential phenomenology still harbors for remaking the world.