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The care of the witness : a contemporary history of testimony in crises
- Title
- The care of the witness : a contemporary history of testimony in crises / Michal Givoni.
- Author
- Givoni, Michal
- Publication
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- ©2016
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Details
- Description
- x, 239 pages; 24 cm
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Human rights in history
- Uniform Title
- Etiḳat ha-ʻedut. English
- Human rights in history.
- Alternative Title
- Etiḳat ha-ʻedut.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Personal narratives.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-13807
- ISBN
- 9781107150942
- 1107150949
- LCCN
- 2016026628
- 40026642394
- OCLC
- 957264841
- Author
- Givoni, Michal, author.
- Title
- The care of the witness : a contemporary history of testimony in crises / Michal Givoni.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Human rights in historyHuman rights in history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40026642394
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-13807