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Storytelling: The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust

Storytelling: The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust

Gasché, Rodolphe

Paperback

Series: Suny Series, Literature...in Theory

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1438471467
ISBN13: 9781438471464
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2019
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.

In Storytelling, Rodolphe Gasché reexamines the muteness of Holocaust survivors, that is, their inability to tell their stories. This phenomenon has not been explained up to now without reducing the violence of the events to which survivors were subjected, on the one hand, and diminishing the specific harm that has been done to them as human beings, on the other. Distinguishing storytelling from testifying and providing information, Gasché asserts that the utter senselessness of the violence inflicted upon them is what inhibited survivors from making sense of their experience in the form of tellable stories. In a series of readings of major theories of storytelling by three thinkers-Wilhelm Schapp, whose work will be a welcome discovery to many English-speaking audiences, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt-Gasché systematically assesses the consequences of the loss of the storytelling faculty, considered by some an inalienable possession of the human, both for the victims' humanity and for philosophy.

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