Revolutionary Forgiveness

• Utgivningsdatum: 2026-05-12
• Mått: 130 x 196 x 20 mm
• Vikt: 332 g
• Format: Häftad
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 312
• Förlag: Haymarket Books
• ISBN: 9798888905982

• Statsvetenskap och politisk teori
• Filosofiska discipliner
• Politik och statsskick

D. K. Renton is a barrister and historian. His work has appeared in The London Review of Books, The Guardian, Jacobin, Spectre, and Tempest. Renton is a member of rs21. His books include The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right and Fascism: History and Theory. He is based in London.

"Renton rescues ‘forgiveness' from the pulpit and returns it, bloodied but lucid, to history. With a barrister’s intolerance for cant and a socialist’s contempt for vicarious absolution, he searches the historical archives from Eleanor Marx to the South African compromise, from Javert’s chilly legalism to Fanon’s revolutionary humanism, and shows that mercy without justice is merely the alibi of the strong — but forgiveness with justice is radical realpolitik."—Richard Seymour, author of Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization“How can the oppressed of the world forgive while colonial capitalism continues to kill? In this excellent book, David Renton shows that many theorists have failed in their thinking by placing forgiveness first. Instead, revolution must come first. Using compelling examples from apartheid South Africa, the Shoah, Israel-Palestine, and key touchpoints in socialist history, Renton explores what it would take for oppressed people to forgive their persecutors. What emerges is a portrait of the possibilities of healing, and a vision of forgiveness underpinned by radical social change.”—Rabbi Lev Taylor, educator for the Queer Yeshiva“Reading Renton will always teach you something new and valuable about the world.” —Daniel Trilling, author of If We Tolerate This: How The British Establishment Made the Far Right Respectable“This book is at once an insightful exploration of the politics of forgiveness and a passionate case for the interdependence of personal and social revolution. Too often, forgiveness becomes a substitute for social transformation; David Renton instead convinces us to recognise it as a necessary part of the repertoire and vocabulary of revolution.”—Dan Swain, author of None So Fit to Break the Chains: Marx’s Ethics of Self-EmancipationPraise for The New Authoritarians"Renton is a stalwart of the anti-racist movement and his book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the changing nature of the right"—Sasha Das Gupta, organiser, Momentum

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