Testimony/Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture
Sybille Krämer (editor), Sigrid Weigel (editor)
What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in its construction? What is the relationship between the person who attests and those who listen? Is bearing witness a concept that is exclusively based in interpersonal relations? Or are there other modes of communicating or mediating to constitute a constellation of testimony? Testimony/Bearing Witness establishes a dialogue between the different approaches to testimony in epistemology, historiography, law, art, media studies and psychiatry. With examples including the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields and the Armenian genocide the volume discusses the chances and limits of communicating epistemological and ethical, philosophical and cultural-historical, past and present perspectives on the phenomenon and concept of bearing witness.
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Année:
2017
Editeur::
Rowman & Littlefield
Langue:
english
Pages:
336
ISBN 10:
1783489758
ISBN 13:
9781783489756
Fichier:
PDF, 7.78 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2017