The care of the witness : a contemporary history of testimony in crises /
"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 theo...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Human rights in history.
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Table of 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.