Hannah Arendt s Concept of Political Forgiveness

2020 ◽  
Vol 92 ◽  
pp. 109-134
Author(s):  
Seon-Wook Kim ◽  
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Shin-Hyung Seong
Theoria ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (161) ◽  
pp. 37-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Grey

The idea of forgiveness is omnipresent in the transitional justice literature, yet this body of work, taken as a whole, is marked by conceptual, terminological and argumentative imprecision. Equivocation is common, glossing moral, theological, therapeutic and legal considerations, while arguments proceed from political, apolitical and even antipolitical premises. With forgiveness as a praxis linked to reconciliation processes in at least ten countries, concerns have grown over its negative implications for the relationship between the state and victims of state-authored injustices. Many of these debates reference Hannah Arendt. Drawing from a range of Arendt’s published and unpublished work, this article challenges the academic claim that forgiveness has no place in the politics of reconciliation. Through this ‘returning to the source’, it presents a promising mode of thinking about political forgiveness in contemporary Settler-colonial states.


2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibrahim A. Kira ◽  
Thom Templin ◽  
Linda Lewandowski ◽  
Hammad Adnan ◽  
Mohanesh Jamal

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (Special Issue) ◽  
pp. 87-103
Author(s):  
Noémi Bíró

"Feminist Interpretations of Action and the Public in Hannah Arendt’s Theory. Arendt’s typology of human activity and her arguments on the precondition of politics allow for a variety in interpretations for contemporary political thought. The feminist reception of Arendt’s work ranges from critical to conciliatory readings that attempt to find the points in which Arendt’s theory might inspire a feminist political project. In this paper I explore the ways in which feminist thought has responded to Arendt’s definition of action, freedom and politics, and whether her theoretical framework can be useful in a feminist rethinking of politics, power and the public realm. Keywords: Hannah Arendt, political action, the Public, the Social, feminism "


2010 ◽  
Vol 2010 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-318
Author(s):  
Mechthild Hetzel ◽  
Andreas Hetzel
Keyword(s):  

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (1) ◽  
pp. 169-190

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