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Witnessness
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ISBN10: 1441124241
ISBN13: 9781441124241
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 21 2010
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781441124241
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 21 2010
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Witnessness posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination. Harvey pursues this ethics by staging a speculative reading of Samuel Beckett's untranslatable text, Worstward Ho, alongside Dante's Purgatorio and Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved and If This Be a Man. Many of the thirty concise chapters that compose Witnessness are built upon notions whose names (e.g. dimness, lessness) take inspiration from Beckett's unique and precise vocabulary. Harvey explores the particular experience of the witness as recounted in Dante and Levi-for signs of a general, common, and innate witness-like attitude that protects the other and that we see expressed in Beckett's penultimate prose piece.
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