Remnants of Auschwitz The Witness and the Archive

Name: Remnants of Auschwitz The Witness and the Archive
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ISBN: 9781890951177

ISBN-10: 189095117X

ISBN-13: 9781890951177

Edition: 2000

Authors: Giorgio Agamben, Daniel Heller-Roazen

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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…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Zone Books
Publication date: 2/9/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Giorgio Agamben is the author of more than fifteen books on topics ranging from aesthetics to poetics, ontology to political philosophy. He is best known for hisï¿½Homo Sacerï¿½series.ï¿½He recently retired from theï¿½Universitï¿½ Iuav di Venezia.