Original Forgiveness

by Nicolas de Warren

In Original Forgiveness, Nicolas de Warren challenges the widespread assumption that forgiveness is always a response to something that has incited it. Rather than considering forgiveness exclusively in terms of an encounter between individuals or groups after injury, he argues that availability for the possibility of forgiveness represents an original forgiveness, an essential condition for the prospect of human relations. De Warren...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810142791
• ISBN13: 9780810142794
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"