ISBN:
9781107150942
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 239 pages
Year of publication:
2016
Series Statement:
Human rights in history
Uniform Title:
Etiḳat ha-ʻedut
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Givoni, Michal The care of the witness
DDC:
177
Keywords:
Testimony (Theory of knowledge)
;
Witnesses
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Personal narratives
;
Human rights
;
Evidence, Hearsay
;
Judenvernichtung
;
Zeugnis
;
Zeuge
;
Menschenrecht
Abstract:
"My preoccupation with witnessing mutated through several phases before it turned into the book you are holding. It germinated while I was writing my PhD dissertation at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University, when the gulf between the theory of testimony that so enchanted contemporary thinking around the ethics of memory on the one hand, and the humanitarian practice of witnessing I was studying on the other, first struck me as philosophically awkward and politically suspect"--
Abstract:
The ethics of witnessing and the politics of the governed -- Witnessing beyond politics : testimony theory between Auschwitz and the crisis of representation -- Witnesses as a public : the authority of experience and the critique of testimonies following the Great War -- Empathic listeners and alarmed spectators : secondary witnessing and existential ruin in the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust testimonies -- Humanitarian governance and ethical cultivation : Medecins Sans Frontières and the advent of the expert-witness
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