ePub The Armies and Uniforms of Marlborough's Wars: v. 2 by C S Grant in History

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In this book the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben looks closely at the literature of the survivors of Auschwitz; probing the philosophical and ethical questions raised by their testimony. "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; have been advanced in the name of ethics."--Giorgio Agamben