The care of the witness: a contemporary history of testimony in crises

"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 theo...

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Main Author: Givoni, Michal 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2016
Series:Human rights in history
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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"...
Item Description:This book was published in Hebrew by the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House in 2015, under the title "The ethics of witnessing: a history of a problem".
Physical Description:x, 239 Seiten
ISBN:9781107150942