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Arendt on Forgiveness

Six posts on forgiveness as Arendt's answer to the irreversibility of action, Auden's Falstaff, and her prejudice against charity.

Hannah Arendt, smiling, seated in a wooden chair in a lecture hall
Hannah Arendt at the first International Congress of Cultural Critics, Munich, 1958. Photo: Barbara Niggl Radloff, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Sammlung Fotografie, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

  1. Forgiveness and the Problem of Irreversibility

  2. Forgiveness as a Manifestation of Divine Charity

  3. A Duty to Forgive?

  4. Prejudice as the Crystallization of Judgments

  5. Charity as a Flight from Politics

  6. Publicity Without Politics

Start with part 1