1st Edition
Why We Shouldn’t Forgive Sovereign Power Against Repair
By Paul Londrigan
Copyright 2026
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why We Shouldn’t Forgive invites you to understand how the practice of political forgiveness and sovereignty has changed, evolved, and developed over time.
Political forgiveness is an awesome power that bears the promise of great benevolence, but this does not mean, as Paul Londrigan argues, that we should forgive. By engaging with the subject of political forgiveness in relation to... Read more
Introduction: Forgiveness Withheld. Chapter I: Modernity’s first critique of political forgiveness Chapter II: Forgiveness and the power of life and death Chapter III: Preservation, peace, and power; peculiar roles for forgiveness Chapter IV: The changing shape of sovereignty Chapter V: The quarantining of the omnipotent. Conclusion: A space for repair
Biography
Paul Londrigan is Clinical Assistant Professor of Political Science at Pace University, USA. His research interests include the politics of forgiveness, mercy and repair, democratic theory, theories of sovereignty, and the history of political thought.
