Perjury and Pardon, Volume IIAn exploration of the political dimensions of forgiveness and repentance from Jacques Derrida. Perjury and Pardon is a two year seminar series given by Jacques Derrida at the cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales in Paris during 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