Fantasies of Witnessing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fantasies of Witnessing write by Gary Weissman. This book was released on 2018-07-05. Fantasies of Witnessing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fantasies of Witnessing explores how and why those deeply interested in the Holocaust, yet with no direct, familial connection to it, endeavor to experience it vicariously through sites or texts designed to make it "real" for nonwitnesses. Gary Weissman argues that far from overwhelming nonwitnesses with its magnitude of horror, the Holocaust threatens to feel distant and unreal. A prevailing rhetoric of "secondary" memory and trauma, he contends, and efforts to portray the Holocaust as an immediate and personal experience, are responses to an encroaching sense of unreality: "In America, we are haunted not by the traumatic impact of the Holocaust, but by its absence. When we take an interest in the Holocaust, we are not overcoming a fearful aversion to its horror, but endeavoring to actually feel the horror of what otherwise eludes us."Weissman focuses on specific attempts to locate the Holocaust: in the person of Elie Wiesel, the most renowned survivor, and his classic memoir Night; in videotaped survivor stories and Lawrence L. Langer's celebrated book Holocaust Testimonies; and in the films Shoah and Schindler's List. These representations, he explains, constitute a movement away from the view popularized by Wiesel, that those who did not live through the Holocaust will never be able to grasp its horror, and toward re-creating the Holocaust as an "experience" nonwitnesses may put themselves through. "It is only by acknowledging the desire that gives shape to such representations, and by exploring their place in the ongoing contest over who really 'knows' the Holocaust and feels its horror, that we can arrive at a more candid assessment of our current and future relationships to the Holocaust," he says.
Philosophical Witnessing
Philosophical Witnessing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophical Witnessing write by Berel Lang. This book was released on 2012-07-03. Philosophical Witnessing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fascinating philosophical inquiry into post-Holocaust representations of the event in political theory, ethics, and aesthetics, and an assessment of the limitations and promise of philosophical 'witnessing' in relation to those issues
Shadow's Witness
Shadow's Witness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shadow's Witness write by Paul S. Kemp. This book was released on 2007. Shadow's Witness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Erevis must prove his loyalty to Selgaunt and the Uskevren.
The Care of the Witness
The Care of the Witness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Care of the Witness write by Michal Givoni. This book was released on 2016-10-31. The Care of the Witness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the twentieth century, witnessing grew to be not just a widespread solution for coping with political atrocities but also an intricate problem. As the personal experience of victims, soldiers, and aid workers acquired unparalleled authority as a source of moral and political truth, the capacity to generate adequate testimonies based on this experience was repeatedly called into question. Michal Givoni's book follows the trail of the problems, torments, and crises that became commingled with witnessing to genocide, disaster, and war over the course of the twentieth century. By juxtaposing episodes of reflexive witnessing to the Great War, the Jewish Holocaust, and third world emergencies, The Care of the Witness explores the shifting roles and responsibilities of witnesses in history and the contribution that the troubles of witnessing made to the ethical consolidation of the witness as the leading figure of nongovernmental politics.
The God Is Not Willing
The God Is Not Willing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The God Is Not Willing write by Steven Erikson. This book was released on 2021-11-16. The God Is Not Willing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson continues the beloved Malazan Book of the Fallen with this first book in the thrilling Witness sequel trilogy, The God is Not Willing. Many years have passed since three warriors brought carnage and chaos to Silver Lake. Now the tribes of the north no longer venture into the southlands. The town has recovered and yet the legacy remains. Responding to reports of a growing unease among the tribes beyond the border, the Malazan army marches on the new god’s people. They aren't quite sure what they're going to be facing. And in those high mountains, a new warleader has risen amongst the Teblor. Scarred by the deeds of Karsa Orlong, he intends to confront his god even if he has to cut a bloody swathe through the Malazan Empire to do so. Further north, a new threat has emerged and now it seems it is the Teblor who are running out of time. Another long-feared migration is about to begin and this time it won't just be three warriors. No, this time tens of thousands are poised to pour into the lands to the south. And in their way, a single company of Malazan marines . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
