Deconstructing 'Forgiveness'

I'm re-reading Derrida's "On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness" for an in-class presentation next week. It's interesting how Derrida expands on Kant's notion of hospitality. This work demonstrates clearly Derrida's work of deconstruction on concepts like hospitality and forgiveness. To forgive what is forgivable is not the pure notion of forgiveness which can only forgive the unforgivable. It is the inherent contradiction of the unconditional versus conditional in the term 'Forgiveness' that renders its undecidability.

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