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Vladimir Jankelevitch: The Time of Forgiveness traces the reflections of the French philosopher and musicologist Vladimir Jankelevitch on the conditions and temporality of forgiveness in relation to creation, history, and memory. The author demonstrates the influence of Jewish and Christian thought on Jankelevitch's philosophy and compares his ideas about the gift character of forgiveness, the role of retributive emotions in conceptions of justice, and the limits of reason with those of Aristotle, Butler, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Scheler, Arendt, Derrida, Levinas, and Ricoeur. The Shoah was the pivotal historical event in Jankelevitch's life. As this book shows, Jankelevitch's question "Is forgiveness possible as a response to evil?" remains a potent philosophical conundrum today. Paradoxically, for Jankelevitch, evil is both the impetus and the obstacle to forgiveness."

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Book category Książki po angielsku Humanities Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy

• Full title: Vladimir Jankelevitch
• Subtitle: The Time of Forgiveness
• Author: Aaron T Looney
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780823262960
• ISBN: 0823262960
• ID: 04731833
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Weight: 682 g
• Dimensions: 160 × 235 × 34 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. April 2015

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