Overview
- Summary
- "Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust survivors. Questioning the notion that traumatic experience is intrinsically unspeakable and that the Holocaust thus lies in a quasi-sacred realm beyond history, the book asks whether much current theory does not have the effect of silencing the voices of real historical victims. It thereby challenges widely accepted theoretical views about the representation of trauma in general and the Holocaust in particular as set forth by Giorgio Agamben, Cathy Caruth, Berel Lang, and Dori Laub. It also reconsiders, in the work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, reflections on ethics and aesthetics after Auschwitz as these pertain to the reception of testimony"--Publisher website.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2013
- Edition
- First edition
- Contents
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Introduction
Frames of reception
Trauma and theory
Art after Auschwitz, again
Theory and testimony
The survivor as other
Conclusion. - Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-302) and index.
Introduction -- Frames of reception -- Trauma and theory -- Art after Auschwitz, again -- Theory and testimony -- The survivor as other -- Conclusion.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780823244485
0823244482
9780823244492
0823244490 - Physical Description
- xvi, 313 pages ; 24 cm
Keywords & Subjects
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