Giving and Forgiving in Nietzsche and Derrida
This article makes a contribution to the current debate on forgiveness and gift-giving in contemporary political and social philosophy. This article presents Nietzsche’s conception of forgiveness as gift-giving beginning with Nietzsche’s critique of the Christian practice of forgiveness as an exampl...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidad Pontificia Comillas
2014-11-01
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| Series: | Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica |
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| Online Access: | https://revistas.upcomillas.es/index.php/pensamiento/article/view/2200 |
| Summary: | This article makes a contribution to the current debate on forgiveness and gift-giving in
contemporary political and social philosophy. This article presents Nietzsche’s conception of forgiveness
as gift-giving beginning with Nietzsche’s critique of the Christian practice of forgiveness as an example
of the spirit of revenge in order to then point out the affinities between the Nietzschean critique and
what Derrida names ‘impure’ or ‘conditional’ forgiveness. It argues that overcoming revenge or ‘impure
forgiveness’ requires an affirmation of the animality of the human being as a life force indispensable to
the constitution of free and just forms of social and political life. |
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| ISSN: | 0031-4749 2386-5822 |