The Bad Conscience

by Vladimir Jankélévitch

Vladimir Jank l vitch was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century philosophy. In The Bad Conscience--published in 1933 and subsequently revised and expanded--Jank l vitch lays the foundations for his later work, Forgiveness, grappling with the conditions that give rise to the moral awareness without which forgiveness would make no sense. Remorse, or "the bad conscience," arises from the realization that the acts one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022600953X
• ISBN13: 9780226009537
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.1"