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Chapter 6 on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission introduces two new ideas, that the poetic is not limited to works of art and that forgiveness is culturally determined. If we accept that the poetic is the ambiguity and creative force in all communication, then it extends beyond the literary to encompass other artistic media and even quasijuridical documents like the reports and testimony of the TRC. And if forgiveness can arise out of this creative ambiguity, then perhaps the TRC can also bear the signifying fruits of forgiveness.
Chapter 6 on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission introduces two new ideas, that the poetic is not limited to works of art and that forgiveness is culturally determined. If we accept that the poetic is the ambiguity and creative force in all communication, then it extends beyond the literary to encompass other artistic media and even quasijuridical documents like the reports and testimony of the TRC. And if forgiveness can arise out of this creative ambiguity, then perhaps the TRC can also bear the signifying fruits of forgiveness.
192). Achilles is unmoved by what he sees as a cheap bribe. ” The greater blunder, however, is his refusal to apologize. 11 What Agamemnon does not know is that reconciliation is predicated not upon material compensation but rather human amends. This is why Derrida insists that “pure forgiveness” be aneconomical, without exchange and without condition (“On Forgiveness” 32). As soon as the “gift” is seen as compensation seeking to restore equality or a state of normality, forgiveness is rendered null and void.
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