Bibliograph

The care of the witness, a contemporary history of testimony in crises, Michal Givoni

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The care of the witness, a contemporary history of testimony in crises, Michal Givoni

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The care of the witness

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

957264841

Responsibility statement

Michal Givoni

Series statement

Human rights in history

Sub title

a contemporary history of testimony in crises

Summary

"My preoccupation with witnessing mutated through several phases before it turned into the book you are holding. It germinated while I was writing my PhD dissertation at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University, when the gulf between the theory of testimony that so enchanted contemporary thinking around the ethics of memory on the one hand, and the humanitarian practice of witnessing I was studying on the other, first struck me as philosophically awkward and politically suspect"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The ethics of witnessing and the politics of the governed -- Witnessing beyond politics : testimony theory between Auschwitz and the crisis of representation -- Witnesses as a public : the authority of experience and the critique of testimonies following the Great War -- Empathic listeners and alarmed spectators : secondary witnessing and existential ruin in the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust testimonies -- Humanitarian governance and ethical cultivation : Medecins Sans Frontières and the advent of the expert-witness

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