Vladimir Jankélévitch and the question of forgiveness / edited by Alan Udoff.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Exordium / Alan Udoff -- I. Forgiveness: Text and Context: 1. Vladimir Jankélévitch at the Colloques des intellectuels juifs de langue française / Jonathan Judaken; 2. Jankélévotch and the metaphysics of forgiveness / Andrew Kelley -- II. Theory and Praxis: 3. Guilty forgiveness / Kevin Hart; 4. The great distress / Catherine Chalier; 5. Travelling light: the conditions of unconditional forgiveness in Levinas and Jankélévitch / Robert Bernasconi; 6. Forgiveness and its limits: a essay on Vladimir Jankélévitch / Jeffrey Bloechl; 7. Forgiveness and "should we pardon them?": the pardon and the imprescriptible / Joëlle Hansel -- III. Witness of Literature: 8. New spartans: Jankélévitch, Schelerr, and Tolkien on vanity / Graham J. McAleer; 9. To atone and to forgive: Jaspers, Jankélévitch/Derrida, and the possibility of forgiveness / Ethan Kleinberg -- IV. At the Crossroads of Theology: 10. The ethics of honor and the possibility of promise / John Milbank; 11. "After such knowledge, what forgiveness?": on Jankélévitch and the question of repentance / Alan Udoff.