Levinasian thoughts on witnessing
Forgiveness, guilt, and reconciliation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11420323 |
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| Authors | Hanoch Ben-Pazi (Bar-Ilan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 345-358 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South African Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0258-0136 • E-ISSN: 2073-4867 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02580136.2016.1209954 |
| OpenAlex | W2515107299 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The Truth and Reconciliation Commissions that operated in South Africa in the mid-1990s represented an exceptional political effort to overcome the country’s intricate blood-stained history using a mechanism based on foundations of forgiveness in a Christian sense, public trial in a symbolic sense, and commissions of inquiry in a political and legal sense. These commissions constituted one of the most daring and impressive attempts in the history of world politics to transform the national social agenda and to facilitate a shared life for the different groups in South Africa. This article engages in a philosophical discussion of a few major aspects of these commissions via the prism of Levinasian philosophical thought and the philosophical and ethical meaning it assigns to the act of bearing witness
Epistemology · Forgiveness · Political science · Politics · Prism · Sociology · Witness · African cultural and philosophical studies · Christian Theology and Mission · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism
Dealing with the past
Just and Unjust Peace
An Ethic For Enemies
No Future Without Forgiveness
Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
Long Walk to Freedom
Levinas and the Claims of Incommensurable Values
Otherwise than Guilt? Challenging Strands of Levinas's Politics
Narrating Political Reconciliation
Healing Past Violence
The Struggle Is My Life
| Highly cited | No |
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