Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who
receive the testimony of Holocaust survivors. Questioning the
notion that traumatic experience is intrinsically unspeakable and
that the Holocaust thus lies in a quasi-sacred realm beyond
history, the book asks whether much current theory does not have
the effect of silencing the voices of real historical victims. It
thereby challenges widely accepted theoretical views about the
representation of trauma in general and the Holocaust in particular
as set forth by Giorgio Agamben, Cathy Caruth, Berel Lang, and Dori
Laub. It also reconsiders, in the work of Theodor Adorno and
Emmanuel Levinas, reflections on ethics and aesthetics after
Auschwitz as these pertain to the reception of testimony. Referring
at length to videotaped testimony and to texts by Charlotte Delbo,
Primo Levi, and Jorge Semprun, the book aims to make these voices
heard. In doing so, it clarifies the problems that anyone receiving
testimony may encounter and emphasizes the degree to which
listening to survivors depends on listening to ourselves and to one
another. Witnessing Witnessing seeks to show how, in the situation
of address in which Holocaust survivors call upon us, we discover
our own tacit assumptions about the nature of community and the
very manner in which we practice it.
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