Witnessness: Beckett, Dante, Levi and the Foundations of Responsibility by Harvey, Robert

Witnessness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781441124241)

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Witnessness: Beckett, Dante, Levi and the Foundations of Responsibility by Harvey, Robert

Witnessness

$47.95
Witnessness: Beckett, Dante, Levi and the Foundations of Responsibility by Harvey, Robert

Witnessness

$47.95
Format: Paperback
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Witnessness posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination. Harvey pursues this ethics by staging a speculative reading of Samuel Beckett's "untranslatable+? text, Worstward Ho, alongside Dante's Purgatorio and Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved and If This Be a Man. Many of the thirty concise chapters that compose Witnessness are built upon notions whose names (e.g. dimness, lessness) take inspiration from Beckett's unique and precise vocabulary. Harvey explores the particular experience of the witness as recounted in Dante and Levi-for signs of a general, common, and innate witness-like attitude that protects the other and that we see expressed in Beckett's penultimate prose piece.

Author: Robert Harvey
ISBN-10: 1441124241
ISBN-13: 9781441124241
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2010
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60d
By Robert Harvey
By Robert Harvey
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Robert Harvey is Chair of the Department of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies and Professor of French and Comparative Literatures at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. He is the author or editor of fifteen books and is one of the very few US academics to have held the position of Directeur de Programme at the College International de Philosophie, Paris, France, founded by Jacques Derrida et al.

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