van der Heiden The Voice of Misery

A Continental Philosophy of Testimony
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-4384-7762-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

A systematic study of testimony rooted in contemporary continental philosophy and drawing on literary case studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

van der Heiden, Gert-Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. To Give a Voice: Six Literary Experiments

1. Letters for the Soul

2. Experiment I. Socrates, the Interpreter

3. Experiment II. Alice, the Secretarious

4. Experiment III. Helena, the Poetess

5. Experiment IV. Johannes, the Poet

6. Experiment V. Bartleby, the Scrivener

7. Experiment VI. Er, the Messenger

Part II. A Distinctive Sense of Testimony

8. Elements of Testimony

9. An Exceptional Attestation

10. A Typology of the Witness

Part III. On the Threshold of Being and Language

11. An Ontology of Testimony

12. The Truth and Untruth of Testimony

13. Subject and Commitment

14. In Lieu of a Conclusion: Celan’s Poetics of Testimony

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gert-Jan van der Heiden is Full Professor of Metaphysics at Radboud University in the Netherlands. His books include Ontology after Ontotheology: Plurality, Event, and Contingency in Contemporary Philosophy and The Truth (and Untruth) of Language: Heidegger, Ricoeur, and Derrida on Disclosure and Displacement.