Amnesty: Between an Ethics of Forgiveness and the Politics of Forgetting

German Law Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 185-195

  Krapp, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 39649087565     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20718322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S2071832200013559     Document Type: Article

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1. Jacques Derrida, Force of Law: The "Mystical Foundation of Authority", 11 CARDOZO L. REV 920 (1990);
2. JACQUES DERRIDA, GIVEN TIME, I: COUNTERFEIT MONEY (1991) (see especially the last chapter of this book entitled: The Excuse and Pardon);
3. JACQUES DERRIDA, ON COSMOPOLITANISM AND FORGIVENESS 27(2001)
4. French as: Le siècle et le pardon, LE MONDE DES DÉBATS 10-17 (December 1999).
5. Jacques Derrida, Declarations of Independence, 15 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 7 (1986);
6. Jacques Derrida, Before the Law, in ACTS OF LITERATURE (Derek Attridge ed., 1992).
7. Jacques Derrida, To Forgive: The Unforgivable and the Imprescriptible, in QUESTIONING GOD 21 (John D. Caputo et al. eds., 2001).
8. Jacques Derrida, THE BRUSSELS TRIBUNAL (February 19, 2004), at www.brusselstribunal.org.
9. See, e.g., R. Briggs, Just Traditions? Deconstruction, Critical Legal Studies, and Analytic Jurisprudence, 11 SOCIAL SEMIOTICS 257 (December 2001);
10. J.M. Balkin, Deconstructive Practice and Legal Theory, 96 YALE LAW JOURNAL 96 743 (1987).
11. Derrida, supra note 2 at 25-26.
12. For the history of pardoning, see JÖRG FISCH, KRIEG UND FRIEDEN IM FRIEDENSVERTRAG. EINE UNIVERSALGESCHICHTLICHE STUDIE ÜBER GRUNDLAGEN UND FORMELEMENTE DES FRIEDENSSCHLUSSES (1979);
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14. NATALIE ZEMON DAVIS, FICTION IN THE ARCHIVES. PARDON TALES AND THEIR TELLERS IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE (1987).
15. Edgar Morin, Pardonnner, c'est résister à la cruauté du monde, LE MONDE DES DÉBATS, 24-26 (February 2000);
16. LE PARDON: BRISER LA DETTE ET L'OUBLI (Olvier Abel ed., 1991);
17. PAUL RICOEUR, LA MÉMOIRE, L'HISTOIRE, L'OUBLI (2000) (which culminates in an "epilogue" on pardon).
18. An English dossier on these texts is found in PMLA 117:2 (2002).
19. Nicole Loraux, De l'amnistie et son contraire, in USAGES DE L'OUBLI (1988)
20. NICOLE LORAUX, MOTHERS IN MOURNING 83 (1998)
21. NICOLE LORAUX, THE DIVIDED CITY: ON MEMORY AND FORGETTING IN ANCIENT ATHENS 145 (2002).
22. Louis Joinet, L'amnistie. Le droit à la mémoire entre pardon et oubli, 49 COMMUNICATIONS 213 (1989). Some point out that the amnesty of 403BC was perhaps not the first known amnesty in Athenian history;
23. DANIELLE S. ALLEN, THE WORLD OF PROMETHEUS: THE POLITICS OF PUNISHING IN DEMOCRATIC ATHENS 237-242 (2002);
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25. See MICHAEL CALDWELL MCHUGH, WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE: THE PUNISHMENT AND PARDON OF GERMAN WAR CRIMINALS, 1945-1958 (Doctoral Dissertation, Miami University, 1991; DAI-A 52/07, p. 2676, Jan 1992).
26. See Christian Meier, Erinnern - Verdrängen - Vergessen, 50 MERKUR 937 (1996).
27. Carl Schmitt, Amnestie oder die Kraft des Vergessens, in STAAT, GROßRAUM, NOMOS 218-221 (1995), 218- 221.
28. Thomas Hobbes. Contemporary with Schmitt's intervention were similar arguments by Ernst Achenbach, Generalamnestie!, 6 ZEITSCHRIFT FÜR GEOPOLITIK 321 (1952)
29. FRIEDRICH GRIMM, AMNESTIE ALS VÖLKERRECHTLICHES POSTULAT (1951).
30. However, in contrast to Schmitt, Renan warned that advances in historiography might pose dangers to politics. See Ernest Renan, Das Plebiszit des Vergeßlichen, FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG (March 27, 1993).
31. AMNESTIE ODER DIE POLITIK DER ERINNERUNG (Gary Smith and Avishai Margalit eds., 1997).
32. Derrida, supra note 2 at 25.
33. JÜRGEN HABERMAS, THE PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE OF MODERNITY 161 (1987);
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36. MARGARETE MITSCHERLICH, ERINNERUNGSARBEIT. ZUR PSYCHOANALYSE DER UNFÄHIGKEIT ZU TRAUERN 114-116 (1987).
37. Nicole Loraux formulates this structure as "faire taire le non-oubli de la mémoire." See LORAUX, LA CITÉ DIVISÉE, supra note 6 at 171.
38. RICOEUR, supra note 5 at 586.
39. LE PARDON: BRISER LA DETTE ET L'OUBLI (Olivier Abel ed., 1991).
40. Jean-François Lyotard, A l'insu (Unbeknownst), in COMMUNITY AT LOOSE ENDS, 42 (Miami Theory Collective ed., 1991).
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42. MARTHA MINOW, BETWEEN VENGEANCE AND FORGIVENESS: FACING HISTORY AFTER GENOCIDE AND MASS VIOLENCE (1998);
43. DESMOND TUTU, NO FUTURE WITHOUT FORGIVENESS (1999).
44. Like Jankelevitch, Arendt folds biblical and classical Greek references into her discussion of the power to forgive. Hannah Arendt, Irreversibility and the Power to Forgive, in THE HUMAN CONDITION 236 (l958)
45. VLADIMIR JANKÉLÉVITCH, LE PARDON (1967);
46. and VLADIMIR JANKÉLÉVITCH, L'IMPRESCRIPTIBLE: PARDONNER? DANS L'HONNEUR ET LA DIGNITÉ (1986).
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50. See William O'Rourke, Remembering to Forget, in SIGNS OF THE LITERARY TIMES: ESSAYS, REVIEWS, PROFILES 1970-1992 169-182 (1993).