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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...
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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
... attempt by drinking Clorox mocked. Todd’s video ends with the cards: “I have nobody / I need someone ☹”; “my name is Amanda Todd.” But mass online loitering cannot be accomplished solely or mainly through technology. We need to engage in a politics of forgiveness and deletion in which we remember...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 29–47.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., is nothing less than a breakdown of spatiotemporal coordinates. When the priest finds himself unable to honor the demands on him—when he is approached by a believer in actual need of forgiveness—he succumbs to a violent seizure of claustrophobia where space itself somehow deflates and becomes unbreathable...
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 86–92.
Published: 01 September 2015
...: 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 in the early sixties when I was a small child. As the bus in which...
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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...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 110–140.
Published: 01 December 2022
...-documented example of this process of supervision and forgiveness surrounding an ongoing case of boundary violation. 9 For Jung’s part, his correspondence with Freud centered on his relationship with Spielrein (see note 2). In short: Spielrein was a patient of Jung’s, and then his student. Four years...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 96–125.
Published: 01 September 2018
..., “could they not have known?” But acknowledging the public possibility of such failures of recognition and attachments outside of familial or religious acts of forgiveness might allow us to radically reimagine what it means to love those who are socially constructed as lacking value. Holding onto Bill...
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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...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 154–188.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of the popular focus on this impactful work centers on how Beyoncé portrays her marital union with Jay-Z, on her treatment of infidelity, and on the journey to forgiving an adulterous husband. This foregrounding of betrayal or infidelity is in keeping with Beyoncé’s first words on Lemonade : “You can taste...
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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...
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differences (1991) 3 (3): 45–68.
Published: 01 November 1991
... observes that these women express unending devotion to, and forgiveness of, their unfaithful lovers, and for him, "nothing is more touching than these fmal adieus, full of tenderness, of pardon, that they murmur even to their fmal breath": "From the day that I saw that you would not be my husband I had...
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differences (2014) 25 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2014
... 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, this coincidence does...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 163–211.
Published: 01 May 2024
... (dee) c. “ The ‘Mo’nin Cure’: Permission to Bark .” Reproduction of Possibility: A Colloquium on Black Critical Thought . Columbia U , New York . 5 May 2023 . ardan dee (dee) c. “ A Perverse Benediction .” The Gift, Sacrifice, and Forgiveness: Blackness Deconstructed. American...
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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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differences (1994) 6 (1): 69–97.
Published: 01 April 1994
..., 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), and lifts...
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