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Instructor:Dr. Shannon Hoff Course title: ICS 2631 The Politics of Forgiveness Term: Spring 2008 Course Description The concept of forgiveness is currently garnering much attention in the areas of ethics and social-political philosophy. It is both advocated and challenged as an alternative to justice and the law, or to typical forms of legal justice and punishment. In this course we will explore what could perhaps be called the “social-ontological” meaning of forgiveness, or forgiveness as societal principle, while considering the actual practices of truth-telling, forgiveness, and reconciliation in areas of conflict. Course Materials Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago, 1998 (or 1958))* [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: HM211 .A7 1998] Caputo, Dooley, and Scanlon, eds., Questioning God (Indiana, 2001) [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: BT795 .Q47 2001X] Jacques Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness, tr. Michael Hughes (Routledge, 2001) [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: JV6346 .D47 2001] G. W. F. Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, tr. A. V. Miller (Oxford, 1976)* [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: B2928 .E5 M54 1977] G. W. F. Hegel, Early Theological Writings, tr. T. M. Knox (Chicago, 1948) [ROBA: B2908 .K513 1948] Vladimir Jankélévitch, Forgiveness, tr. Andrew Kelley (Chicago, 2005) [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: BT795 .J313 2005X] Paul Ricoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting, tr. Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer (Chicago, 2004)* [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: BD181.7 .R5313 2006] Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness (Random House, 1999) [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: BR1450 .T88 1999] *These titles can be found in the University of Toronto Bookstore. Course Requirements Class Participation 10% Each course participant is required to do the reading assignment and participate in class discussions. Good participation is mindful and conducive of the contributions of others, and should be neither excessive nor absent. Please feel free to participate in less obvious ways (office hours, etc.) if you are less than comfortable with speaking in public. Presentation 30% Each course participant will give one presentation on a course reading. (If the class is very small, this could increase to two.) The twenty to thirty minute presentation should highlight main points and raise questions to the text; you are not expected to explain all the material we’ve read for that day. Research Paper 60% A final draft of the research paper is due on May 11, exactly one month after the end of class. A 100-500 word abstract of the paper is due on the 26th of March. I would also encourage you to discuss the paper with me and/or hand in early drafts of it. Required Readings Hannah Arendt, Chapter 5 of The Human Condition Jacques Derrida, “On Forgiveness,” in On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness Jacques Derrida, “To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible,” in Mark Dooley, John D. Caputo, and Michael J. Scanlon, eds., Questioning God G. W. F. Hegel, “Conscience: Evil, the Beautiful Soul, and Its Forgiveness,” in Phenomenology of Spirit G. W. F. Hegel, selections from “The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate,” in Early Theological Writings Vladimir Jankélévitch, selections from Forgiveness Vladimir Jankélévitch, “Should We Pardon Them?” Paul Ricoeur, “Epilogue,” in Memory, History, Forgetting Desmond Tutu, Chapters 2, 4, and 11 of No Future Without Forgiveness Other Recommendations and Resources J. M. Bernstein, “Confession and Forgiveness: Hegel’s Poetics of Action,” in Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination [ROBA: PN49 .B49 1996X] _____. “Conscience and Transgression: The Persistence of Misrecognition,” in Bulletin of the Hegel Society of Great Britain [McMaster-Mills Library: B 2900 .B85] _____. “Love and Law: Hegel’s Critique of Morality,” in Social Research [ROBA: H1 .S53] Richard Bernstein, “Derrida: The Aporia of Forgiveness?,” in Constellations [ROBA: HX3 .P832] Hauke Brunkhorst, Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: HM717 .B7813 2005] Joseph Butler, Fifteen Sermons (especially Sermon VIII and IX) [REGIS: BX5133 .B87 F5 1970] Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself. [ICS Library: ON ORDER] Cheshire Calhoun, “Changing One’s Heart,” in Ethics [ROBA: BJ1 .E8] Claudia Card, “Mercy,” in Philosophical Review [ROBA: B1 .P5] William E. Connolly, “Evil and the Imagination of Wholeness,” in Liberal Modernism and Democratic Individuality [VIC-PRATT: JC571 .L5294 1996] P. E. Digeser, Political Forgiveness [ROBA: JA79 .D54 2001X] Robert D. Enright and Joanna North, Exploring Forgiveness [ROBA: BF637 .F67 E86 1998X] Joel Feinberg, Doing and Deserving: Essays in the Theory of Responsibility Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: HV8666 .F6813 1995] Martin Golding, “Forgiveness and Regret,” in Philosophical Forum [ROBA: B1 .P48] Timothy Gorringe, God’s Just Vengeance [ROBA: BT263 .G67 1996X] Trudy Govier, Forgiveness and Revenge [ROBA: BJ1476 .G685 2002] Joram Graf Haber, Forgiveness [ROBA: BJ1476 .H33 1991] Jean Hampton and Jeffrie Murphy, Forgiveness and Mercy [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: BJ1476 .M87 1988] Stanley Hauerwas, “Constancy and Forgiveness: The Novel as a School for Virtue,” in Notre Dame English Journal [ROBA: PN49 .A1 N67] Virginia Held, Rights and Goods: Justifying Social Action [ROBA: JA79 .H44 1984] Richard Holloway, On Forgiveness [ROBA: BF 637 .F67H64 2002] L. Gregory Jones, Embodying Forgiveness: A Theological Analysis [ROBA: BT795 .J66 1995X] Aurel Kolnai, “Forgiveness,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society [TRIN: PER] Primo Levi, The Drowned and the Saved [ROBA: D810 .J4 L43513 1988] Christopher D. Marshall, Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime, and Punishment [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: HV7419 .M36 2001] Marilyn McCord-Adams, “Forgiveness: A Christian Model,” in Faith and Philosophy [ICS Library: PER] Martha Minow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: HV6322.7 .M56 1998] Michael Moore, “The Moral Worth of Retribution,” in Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions [ROBA: BJ1451 .R37 1987] Jeffrie Murphy, Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits [ROBA: BF637 .F67 M87 2003X] Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: B3313 .Z7 E653 2007] Martha Nussbaum, “Equity and Mercy,” in Philosophy and Public Affairs [ROBA: BJ1 .P5] Mark Osiel, Mass Atrocity, Collective Memory, and the Law [ROBA: JX5433 .O83 1997X] Donald W. Shriver, Jr., An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics [ROBA: BR115 .P7 S514 1995X] Mark Tunick, Punishment: Theory and Practice [ROBA: K5103 .T86 1992] Miroslav Volf, Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation; [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: BV4509.5 .V65 1996] _____. Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace; [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: BV4647 .G45 V65 2005] _____. The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World [ICS Library Reserve Shelf: BV4597.565 .V65 2006] Simon Wiesenthal, The Sunflower [ROBA: D810 .J4 W53 1976] Nicholas Wolterstorff, “Does Forgiveness Undermine Justice?,” in God and the Ethics of Belief [ROBA: BR100 .G62 2005] Slavoj Zizek, For they know not what they do: Enjoyment as a political factor [ROBA: B823.3 .Z5813 2002] Course Schedule January 9 Introduction January 16 Hegel, “The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate” (pp. 182-8, 199-247) January 23 Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit (pp. 383-409) January 30 Arendt, Chapter 5 of The Human Condition February 6 Arendt, continued February 13 Jankelevitch, Forgiveness (pp. 1-11, 156-65); “Should We Pardon Them?” February 20 READING BREAK February 27 Derrida, “On Forgiveness” March 5 Derrida, "To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible" March 12 Derrida, continued March 19 Ricoeur, “Epilogue” from Memory, History, and Forgetting March 26 Ricoeur, continued April 2 Tutu, Chapters 2, 4, and 11 of No Future Without Forgiveness. Paper abstract due. April 9 Extra day May 11 Final paper due |
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