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Phenomenology and Forgiveness
Marguerite La Caze · 2018
72/100
👍 Worth It
La Caze assembles a rigorous and genuinely original contribution to moral philosophy by running the forgiveness question through phenomenology rather than analytic ethics — bringing Arendt, Levinas, Ricoeur, and Fanon to bear on questions most philosophers answer from the armchair. The positive reception in Phenomenological Reviews confirms its standing in the field. Outside academic philosophy, this will feel dense and remote, but within that world it earns its place.
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