Giorgio (Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio) Agamben

Remnants of Auschwitz

The Witness and the Archive

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In its form, this book is a kind of perpetual commentary on testimony. It did not seem possible to proceed otherwise. At a certain point, it became clear that testimony contained at its core an essential lacuna: in other words, the survivors bore witness to something it is impossible to bear witness to. As a consequence, commenting on survivors' testimony necessarily meant interrogating this lacuna or, more precisely, attempting to listen to it. Listening to something absent did not prove fruitless work for this author. Above all, it made it necessary to clear away almost all the doctrines that, since Auschwitz, heva been advanced in the name… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Heller-Roazen, Daniel (Princeton University) (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-890951-17-7
EAN: 9781890951177
Produktnummer: 9718244
Verlag: Zone Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Masse: H22.7 cm x B15.3 cm x D1.5 cm 316 g
Gewicht: 316
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

Giorgio Agamben is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Venice. His many publications include Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive (Zone Books), The Coming Community, and State of Exception. Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. He is the author of Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language; The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation; The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations; and The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World, all published by Zone Books.