Why We Shouldnt Forgive - Sovereign Power Against Repair

This book invites the reader to understand how the practice of political forgiveness and sovereignty have changed, evolved, and developed over time. Londrigan offers original insights into forgiveness as part of an analysis of prerogative power, and thus how it has been understood in the history of political thought becomes intelligible.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Londrigan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 15.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032851730
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3285173-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Medicine, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social Work, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Political science and theory, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Human rights, civil rights, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Medicine and Nursing