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Remnants of Auschwitz - The Witness and the Archive (Paperback, Revised)
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Remnants of Auschwitz - The Witness and the Archive (Paperback, Revised)
Series: Zone Books
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A philosophical study of the testimony of the survivors of
Auschwitz. In this book the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben
looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz,
probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by their
testimony. "In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual
commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed
otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony
contained at its core an essential lacuna; in other words, the
survivors bore witness to something it is impossible to bear
witness to. As a consequence, commenting on survivors' testimony
necessarily meant interrogating this lacuna or, more precisely,
attempting to listen to it. Listening to something absent did not
prove fruitless work for this author. Above all, it made it
necessary to clear away almost all the doctrines that, since
Auschwitz, have been advanced in the name of ethics."-Giorgio
Agamben
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