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Since the Holocaust the concept of forgiveness has gained new understandings. In response to the atrocities of the 20th century, post-structuralist philosopher Jacques Derrida recognized that ‘the call to forgiveness finds itself … reactivated, remotivated, accelerated’ (Derrida, 2001: 33). But when confronted with the Holocaust, an event repeatedly deemed beyond com-prehensibility, how do we even begin to consider reaching a level of peace or resolution that forgiveness seems to demand?
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Eldin, C. (2015). The Limits of Forgiveness and Postmodern Art. In: Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era. The Holocaust and its Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137530424_11
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