On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness

Reinhart - Why and how does humanity have a capacity for inhumanity? - JCRT 3.3

Why and how does humanity have a capacity for inhumanity?

a review of Jacques Derrida, On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness. Routledge, 2001. 94pp. $13.00. ISBN: 0415227119

David Reinhart
Saint Xavier University

Within this small but dense book, Jacques Derrida addresses issues regarding social projects of legitimacy, hospitality, religion and politics. These essays are actually comprised of two separate speeches from 1996 and 1999.

David Reinhart teaches theology at Saint Xavier University and is completing a dissertation examining the significance of prayer in the works of Metz, Derrida, and Habermas.

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Updated 07/28/21.
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