Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive - Rilegato

Agamben, Giorgio

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ISBN 10: 1890951161 ISBN 13: 9781890951160

Casa editrice: Zone Books, 2000

Riassunto

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, since Auschwitz, have been advanced in the name of ethics."
—Giorgio Agamben

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Book by Agamben Giorgio

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Zone Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1890951161
• ISBN 13: 9781890951160
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 175
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile