Michal Givoni (Israel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

The Care of the Witness

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Human Rights in History
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9781107150942
• ISBN-10: 1107150949
• Artikelnr.: 45571581

Autorenporträt

Michal Givoni teaches in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She is co-editor of The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. The ethics of witnessing and the politics of the governed;
2. Witnessing beyond politics: testimony theory between Auschwitz and the
crisis of representation; 3. Witnesses as a public: the authority of
experience and the critique of testimonies following the Great War; 4.
Empathic listeners and alarmed spectators: secondary witnessing and
existential ruin in the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies;
5. Humanitarian governance and ethical cultivation: Médecins Sans
Frontières and the advent of the expert-witness; Conclusion: revisiting the
ethics of witnessing.