Reconsidering
Cosmopolitanism and
Forgiveness
Reframing the Boundaries: Thinking the Political
Series editors: Alison Assiter and Evert van der Zweerde
This series aims to mine the rich resources of philosophers in the ‘continental’ tradition for their contributions to thinking the political. It fills a gap in the literature by suggesting that the work of a wider range of philosophers than those normally associated with this sphere of work can be of relevance to the political.
Titles in the Series
Kierkegaard and the Matter of Philosophy, Michael O’Neill Burns
Arendt, Levinas and a Politics of Relationality, Anya Topolski
The Risk of Freedom: Ethics, Phenomenology and Politics in Jan Patocka, Francesco Tava, translated by Jane Ledlie
Nietzsche’s Death of God and Italian Philosophy, Emilio Carlo Corriero, translated by Vanessa Di Stefano
Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics and the Political, Andrey Makarychev and Alexandra Yatsyk
Axel Honneth: Reconceiving Social Philosophy, Dagmar Wilhelm
Creating Society as a Work of Art: Towards an Imaginative Logic of Action in Sartre’s “Critique of Dialectical Reason,” Austin Hayden Smidt
Ontologies of Sex: Philosophy in Sexual Politics, Zeynep Direk
Reconsidering Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness: Arendt, Derrida and “Care for the World,” Christopher Peys
Reconsidering
Cosmopolitanism and
Forgiveness
Arendt, Derrida, and “Care for
the World”
Christopher Peys
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Names: Peys, Christopher, author.
Title: Reconsidering cosmopolitanism and forgiveness : Arendt, Derrida, and “care for the world” / Christopher Peys.
Description: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. | Series: Reframing the boundaries : thinking the political | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020007910 (print) | LCCN 2020007911 (ebook) | ISBN 9781786615183 (cloth) | ISBN 9781786615190 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Derrida, Jacques. | Political science—Philosophy. | Arendt, Hannah, 1906-1975. | Caring. | Cosmopolitanism. | Forgiveness.
Classification: LCC B2430.D484 P55 2020 (print) | LCC B2430.D484 (ebook) | DDC 320.01—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020007910
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Contents
“Nobody Cares Any Longer What the World Looks Like”
Care and “Caring for the World”
1 Derrida: On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness
Derrida, Deconstruction, and “Undecidability”
2 Forgiveness and “Care for the World”
Vengeance and Forgiveness from an Arendtian Perspective
Vengeance, Forgiveness, and the Vita Activa
3 Caring Cosmopolitanism: Worldly Stories and Narrative Voices
Care for the Self, Other, or the World?
Megan Phelps-Roper and a Caring Cosmopolitanism
4 Caring in Time: Negotiating the Gap “between Past and Future”
Private, Cyclical Time and Public, Rectilinear Time
Megan Phelps-Roper: Beginning Anew in the Abyss beyond the WBC
I would like to express my profound gratitude, for their invaluable