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Suffering Witness: The Quandary of Responsibility after the Irreparable

Suffering Witness: The Quandary of Responsibility after the Irreparable

Hatley, James D.

Paperback

Series: Suny Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

PhilosophyGeneral World HistoryHolocaust

ISBN10: 0791447065
ISBN13: 9780791447062
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Oct 19 2000
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.93 Depth: 8.92
Language: English

Conceptualizes the question of witness and responsibility, following the Holocaust, using continental philosophy, theology, and literary theory.

Drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, James Hatley uses the prose of Primo Levi and Tadeusz Borowski, as well as the poetry of Paul Celan, to question why witnessing the Shoah is so pressing a responsibility for anyone living in its aftermath. He argues that the witnessing of irreparable loss leaves one in an irresoluble quandary but that the attentiveness of that witness resists the destructive legacy of annihilation.

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