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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Zone Books
Publication date
February 1, 2000
Pages
175
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781890951160
ISBN-10
1890951161
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.90 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$28.95
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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."
âGiorgio Agamben
"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."
âGiorgio Agamben
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
from Zone Books (February 1, 2000)
9781890951160 | details & prices | 175 pages | 6.00 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $28.95
About: 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.
About: 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.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Zone Books (October 4, 2002)
9781890951177 | details & prices | 176 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $21.95
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