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Scars of the Spirit - The Struggle Against Inauthenticity (Paperback, First)
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Scars of the Spirit - The Struggle Against Inauthenticity (Paperback, First)
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In this fascinating collection of essays, noted cultural critic
Geoffrey Hartman raises the essential question of where we can find
the real or authentic in today's world, and how this affects the
way we can understand our human predicament. Hartman explores such
issues as the fantasy of total and perfect information available on
the Internet, the biographical excesses of tell-all daytime talk
shows, and how we can understand what is "true" in biographical and
testimonial writing. And, what, he asks, is the ethical point of
all this personal testimony? What has it really taught us?
Underlying the entire book is a question of how the Holocaust has
shaped the possibilities for truth and for the writing of an
authentic life story in today's world, and how we can approach the
world in a meaningful way. Hartman produces a meditation on how an
appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of art and writing may help
us to answer these questions of meaning.
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