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Testimony/Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture

By Kramer , Sybille (editor); Sigrid Weigel (editor)

Book information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Year
2017
ISBN
9781783489770, 9781783489756
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4281538 bytes)
Pages
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Library
Memory of the World Library
Time added
2021-08-30 05:45:33

Description

What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in its construction? What is the relationship between the person who attests and those who listen? Is bearing witness a concept that is exclusively based in interpersonal relations? Or are there other modes of communicating or mediating to constitute a constellation of testimony? Testimony/Bearing Witness establishes a dialogue between the different approaches to testimony in epistemology, historiography, law, art, media studies and psychiatry. With examples including the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge and the Armenian genocide the volume discusses the chances and limits of communicating epistemological and ethical, philosophical and cultural-historical, past and present perspectives on the phenomenon and concept of bearing witness.

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