9781438471464: Storytelling
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ISBN 10 : 1438471467 ISBN 13 : 9781438471464
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2019

Synopsis

An innovative philosophical meditation on the muteness of Holocaust survivors and the human faculty of storytelling.

In Storytelling, Rodolphe Gasché reexamines the muteness of Holocaust survivors, that is, their inability to tell their stories. This phenomenon has not been explained up to now without reducing the violence of the events to which survivors were subjected, on the one hand, and diminishing the specific harm that has been done to them as human beings, on the other. Distinguishing storytelling from testifying and providing information, Gasché asserts that the utter senselessness of the violence inflicted upon them is what inhibited survivors from making sense of their experience in the form of tellable stories. In a series of readings of major theories of storytelling by three thinkers-Wilhelm Schapp, whose work will be a welcome discovery to many English-speaking audiences, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt-Gasché systematically assesses the consequences of the loss of the storytelling faculty, considered by some an inalienable possession of the human, both for the victims' humanity and for philosophy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Rodolphe Gasché is SUNY Distinguished Professor and Eugenio Donato Professor of Comparative Literature at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. His many books include Storytelling: The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust, also published by SUNY Press.

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Éditeur
State University of New York Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1438471467
ISBN 13 
9781438471464
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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9781438471457: Storytelling: The Destruction of the Inalienable in the Age of the Holocaust

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ISBN 10 :  1438471459 ISBN 13 :  9781438471457
Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2018
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