Testimony/Bearing Witness: Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture
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London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017. 294 p.
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TY - BOOK
T1 - Testimony/Bearing Witness
T2 - Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture
A2 - Krämer, Sybille
A2 - Weigel, Sigrid
PY - 2017/8
Y1 - 2017/8
N2 - What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in its construction? What is the relationship between the person who attests and those who listen? Is bearing witness a concept that is exclusively based in interpersonal relations? Or are there other modes of communicating or mediating to constitute a constellation of testimony?Testimony/Bearing Witness establishes a dialogue between the different approaches to testimony in epistemology, historiography, law, art, media studies and psychiatry. With examples including the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields and the Armenian genocide the volume discusses the chances and limits of communicating epistemological and ethical, philosophical and cultural-historical, past and present perspectives on the phenomenon and concept of bearing witness.
AB - What is the epistemological value of testimony? What role does language, images, and memory play in its construction? What is the relationship between the person who attests and those who listen? Is bearing witness a concept that is exclusively based in interpersonal relations? Or are there other modes of communicating or mediating to constitute a constellation of testimony?Testimony/Bearing Witness establishes a dialogue between the different approaches to testimony in epistemology, historiography, law, art, media studies and psychiatry. With examples including the Holocaust, the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields and the Armenian genocide the volume discusses the chances and limits of communicating epistemological and ethical, philosophical and cultural-historical, past and present perspectives on the phenomenon and concept of bearing witness.
KW - Digital media
KW - Philosophy
M3 - Collected editions and anthologies
SN - 978-1-78348-975-6
BT - Testimony/Bearing Witness
PB - Rowman & Littlefield International
CY - London
ER -