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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 224–249.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Rey Chow The question explored in this article pertains to the type of exchange specific to human relations we call forgiveness. Hannah Arendt's comments on the subject provide a compelling justification for its necessity: “Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 1–11.
Published: 01 December 2020
... of a story, a story in the story that will elicit forgiveness: “you will pardon the poor unfortunate man [that is, the merchant] the third of his crime” (22). The story told by the old man within the story of the merchant and the genie told by Scheherazade thus introduces the idea that a story can bring...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 1–8.
Published: 01 December 2009
... secular forms, focusing on the
concepts of mercy and forgiveness as measures of humanity. Forgiveness
in particular becomes yet another form of translation, the reduction of the
different to the same, the overcoming of alterity...
Journal Article
differences (2010) 21 (3): 53–72.
Published: 01 December 2010
... to the power it calls upon, marking the possibility of hubris inherent
in the invocation, that is, in presuming communicability at all: “[T]hen
forgive / This boast, beloved brethren, and withdraw / No portion of your
wonted favour now...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2015
...—resuscitated the deleted files and organized protests. Anonymous also posted videos suggesting that they knew who the rapists were and that they were going to expose them. These videos ended with their signature anthem: We are Anonymous. We are legion. We do not forgive, We do not forget. Expect...
FIGURES
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 29–47.
Published: 01 December 2020
... office and distractedly gives out absolution and forgiveness, all while longing to resume his favorite pastime: solving his Rubik’s Cube (when not eating, sinfully). The fund manager aggressively deals, amassing huge credit positions and leveraging them even more vertiginously. And the painter is engaged...
Journal Article
differences (2019) 30 (1): 55–62.
Published: 01 May 2019
... as overseer of Mike’s proclivities, Melania’s dismissal forgives Donald’s repeated transgressions as childish play. Whereas women, and especially mothers, are often aligned with nature, it is only when reigning in men’s sexuality that this alignment shifts, pushing them to the side of reason against...
Journal Article
differences (2015) 26 (2): 86–92.
Published: 01 September 2015
... the general population. This was, of course, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil . The controversy surrounding this book was monumental and furious, and even today, fifty years later, there are those who cannot forgive her for what she wrote. Many of them were speaking over my head...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 96–125.
Published: 01 September 2018
.... We have to find a way to live with those who we should not forgive. More people are connected through attachments to iconographic love objects than through other everyday interactions. When we grieve the death—literal or figurative—of a celebrity who was truly meaningful to multitudes, recognition...
Journal Article
differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 110–140.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and the role of transference love—bound and unbound—in cure. The most famous examples of trying to bind boundary violations were captured in epistolary supervision between Freud and his students. These correspondences often took on an air of confession (by the students) and forgiveness (by Freud...
Journal Article
differences (2007) 18 (3): 97–127.
Published: 01 December 2007
... as foregrounding such spiritual vir-
tues as forgiveness, mercy, and love, great exegetical energy is deployed
in marshalling New Testament references to judgment and punishment
in order to demonstrate Jesus’ affirmation of a rigid economy...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 250–278.
Published: 01 December 2009
... publicity
and the public sphere” (Inclusion 177). What, then, do we make of the fact
that Habermas so quickly backs away from this reading of Kant and claims
to “forgive his trust in the persuasive power of philosophy and the integrity...
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differences (2015) 26 (3): 142–164.
Published: 01 November 2015
... not punishment. 22 Up to this point, von Trier seems to have given us just another Christian movie about sacrifice, stoicism, and forgiveness in which Grace is the poor lamb (though “sainted” and thus morally superior to the others) willing to sacrifice itself so that the others can expiate their sins...
Journal Article
differences (2018) 29 (2): 154–188.
Published: 01 September 2018
... wears would find further exposition in his album, 4:44 . Before turning to that text, however, it is important to underscore that by incorporating her female fictive kin and the Mothers of the Movement in “Redemption,” the sequence immediately following “Forgiveness,” Beyoncé signals that although she...
Journal Article
differences (1999) 11 (1): 179–202.
Published: 01 May 1999
... seek is not forgiveness, for
those who could have given it to me are no longer here. And yet,
I need justice, truth and forgiveness. (179–80)
Her words suggest a search for notions of original truth, justice...
Journal Article
differences (1991) 3 (3): 45–68.
Published: 01 November 1991
... her feet, pulls out her hair, threatens, hits, smashes" (113). Proal is taken with the image of the languishing, despairing female who chooses ultimately to take her own life. He observes that these women express unending devotion to, and forgiveness of, their unfaithful lovers, and for him, "nothing...
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differences (2014) 25 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2014
...—“assuming that it is the very same word, and that henceforth it is French through and through” (178)—to translate, first, a key term in Hegel’s dialectical vocabulary and then, second and many years later, a word of Shakespeare’s concerning mercy or forgiveness from The Merchant of Venice . What is more...
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differences (2019) 30 (2): 115–145.
Published: 01 September 2019
... that of the state and anchored her outside of the parliamentary walls. It thereby transformed the parliament for her into a threshold between the legal and the illegal, between demands for compromise and demands for not forgiving and forgetting. As a person who became legalized and included in the “nation” through...
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differences (1994) 6 (1): 69–97.
Published: 01 April 1994
... patriarchs which acknowledge, forgive, accept, celebrate a queerness somehow shared among Cuban fathers and sons, Pepes and Ismaeles? Arenas appropriates the folk narrative kernel ofthose archetypal confrontational reunifications of father and grown son after a long separation (Thompson N321, N344.2, N730-31...
Journal Article
differences (2014) 25 (2): 33–61.
Published: 01 September 2014
... in his very wish
both to give to and forgive those whom they encounter along the road (the
father, significantly, only wants to give to his son, and in so doing expresses
a repeated desire for forgiveness for himself). The boy gives...
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