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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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York :
Cambridge University Press
2016.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Human rights in history. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39822564*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
