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On the Other Side: Testimony, Affect, Imagination leads us into the epicentre of contemporary discussions on memory, community, language and the ethical status of the humanities. At the same time, it is an exceptional work in the context of the Polish field of research on the Holocaust, depicting bo...
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| Format: | Online |
| Idioma: | polonès |
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Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
2024
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| Accés en línia: | ONIX_20240916_9788367637411_186 |
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| Sumari: | On the Other Side: Testimony, Affect, Imagination leads us into the epicentre of contemporary discussions on memory, community, language and the ethical status of the humanities. At the same time, it is an exceptional work in the context of the Polish field of research on the Holocaust, depicting both the challenges faced by the humanities’ reflection, and the new territories of epistemic sensitivity, including the argument of the axiology of imagination, defined in a relative way as one of the markers of co-memory. The closely-entwined thematic areas (such as gender in the context of the Holocaust, aporias of translation in the context of traumatic history, the occurrence of torture in relation to metaphysical definitions of language and the demands of human rights, or finally, non-memory of the genocide of Indians as a symptom of a politically-motivated epistemic exclusion), have been problematised in a way that links a wider philosophical-scientific erudition with ethical sensitivity, which transgresses the boundaries of neutral academic discourse and provokes a particular kind of intellectual and emotional engagement. The book is also testimony of the epistemic and ontological status of the ‘in-between’: the author, who left Poland in 1989 to go across the Atlantic, states that one is always on the wrong side. This sense of alienation, which goes beyond the framework of cultural uprooting, has its price in terms of identity, but it also provides a unique perspective, which allows one to diagnose the epistemic short-sightedness of the ‘two sides’, and to make its ethical consequences a subject of reflection. (Dr hab. Dorota Wolska) |
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