The care of the witness : a contemporary history of testimony in crises / Michal Givoni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Givoni, Michal, author.

Series:

Human rights in history

Standardized Title:

Etiḳat ha-ʻedut. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Testimony (Theory of knowledge).

Witnesses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Human rights.

Evidence, Hearsay.

Genre:

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

x, 239 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107150942

1107150949

OCLC:

957264841

Publisher Number:

40026642394