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Comments on: Derrida forgives in South Africa
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By: David Jackson
http://www.makingchutney.com/2004/08/11/derrida-forgives-in-south-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-2172
Thu, 27 Jan 2005 19:05:02 +0000http://www.makingchutney.com/posts/2004/08/11/derrida-forgives-in-south-africa/#comment-2172 I am by no means deeply acquainted with Derrida, but I recently watched the movie “Derrida”. Here Derrida was recorded speaking the words above. I worked out an understanding and I think Derrida is really questioning the meaning of forgiveness to elucidate the origin of the one, the one being the one that every one is, the unity of self. In the movie (I have never read Derrida), Derrida speaks of the one as violence. I think instead of assuming the self is original, Derrida is trying to force us to see the self as a break with an original unity (though this its self seems impossible) Pure forgiveness then is really a giving of the unity of the one caused by the violence of the other. Pure, though I am tempted to put it as complete, forgiveness is impossible because it would dissolve the unity of the self. One can not completely forgive else one would forget one’s self. Here forgiveness is more original than any concepts of law or justice – it is a function of existence – it is the antithesis of selfishness.
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By: chutney
http://www.makingchutney.com/2004/08/11/derrida-forgives-in-south-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-892
Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:42:09 +0000http://www.makingchutney.com/posts/2004/08/11/derrida-forgives-in-south-africa/#comment-892Sure, but I think that’s precisely Derrida’s point.
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By: Alain Wittman
http://www.makingchutney.com/2004/08/11/derrida-forgives-in-south-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-891
Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:15:35 +0000http://www.makingchutney.com/posts/2004/08/11/derrida-forgives-in-south-africa/#comment-891It seems odd that Derrida of all people would want to talk about “pure” forgiveness. His work has done nothing else but demonstrate that contamination is at work in every conceptual edifice. Why would he desire or expect forgiveness to be exempt from this logic?
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