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Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Remnants of AuschwitzItalian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz, probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by their testimony.
Full description- Publisher: ZONE BOOKS
- Published: 02 September 2002
- Format: Paperback 176 pages
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- Categories: Literary Essays | Literary Studies: General | European History | Holocaust | Second World War | Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- ISBN 13: 9781890951177 ISBN 10: 189095117X
- Sales rank: 36,696
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Full description for Remnants of Auschwitz
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
