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Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#387520-UH6
Titel	Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive
Auteur	Agamben, Giorgio
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Zone Books
Jaar van uitgave	2002
ISBN10	189095117X
ISBN13	9781890951177
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In this book the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz, probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by their testimony."In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essential lacuna; in other words, the survivors bore witness to something it is impossible to bear witness to. As a consequence, commenting on survivors' testimony necessarily meant interrogating this lacuna or, more precisely, attempting to listen to it. Listening to something absent did not prove fruitless work for this author. Above all, it made it necessary to clear away almost all the doctrines that, s... (Lees verder)ince Auschwitz, have been advanced in the name of ethics."--Giorgio Agamben
Pagina's	175
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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