An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and
forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the
twentieth century. "One only ever asks forgiveness for what is
unforgivable." From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon, a
two-year series of seminars given by Jacques Derrida at the Ecole
des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris in the late 1990s.
In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical,
juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility.
His primary goal is to develop what he calls a "problematic of
lying" by studying diverse forms of betrayal: infidelity, denial,
false testimony, perjury, unkept promises, desecration, sacrilege,
and blasphemy. Although forgiveness is a notion inherited from
multiple traditions, the process of forgiveness eludes those
traditions, disturbing the categories of knowledge, sense, history,
and law that attempt to circumscribe it. Derrida insists on the
unconditionality of forgiveness and shows how its complex
temporality destabilizes all ideas of presence and even of
subjecthood. For Derrida, forgiveness cannot be reduced to
repentance, punishment, retribution, or salvation, and it is
inseparable from, and haunted by, the notion of perjury. Through
close readings of Kant, Kierkegaard, Shakespeare, Plato,
Jankelevitch, Baudelaire, and Kafka, as well as biblical texts,
Derrida explores diverse notions of the "evil" or malignancy of
lying while developing a complex account of forgiveness across
different traditions.
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