Forgiveness and its Reason

Publication Type

Thesis

Year of Publication

2010

Author

Jesson, Stuart

Publisher

University of Nottingham

Place Published

Nottingham, UK uses

Work Type

Diss

Language

English

Keywords

forgiveness
Derrida, Jacques
void
suffering
affliction (malheur)
attention
Taubes, Susan
Cross
Amery, Jean
'the good'
love of God
evil
compassion
Volf, Miroslav

Annotation

Uses Weil's writing to disucss the concept of forgiveness. Although Simone is referenced throughout the thesis, see especially Chapter two "Simone Weil: acceptance, protest and desire".

url

http://etheses.nottingham.ac.uk/2038/1/Forgiveness_and_its_reason.pdf