Suffering Witness

Author : James D. Hatley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791491959

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Suffering Witness by James D. Hatley Pdf

Drawing on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, James Hatley uses the prose of Primo Levi and Tadeusz Borowski, as well as the poetry of Paul Celan, to question why witnessing the Shoah is so pressing a responsibility for anyone living in its aftermath. He argues that the witnessing of irreparable loss leaves one in an irresoluble quandary but that the attentiveness of that witness resists the destructive legacy of annihilation. "In this new and sensitive synthesis of scrupulous thinking about the Holocaust (beginning with scruples about the term Holocaust itself), James Hatley approaches all the major questions surrounding our overwhelming inadequacy in the aftermath of the irreparable. If there is anything unique (in a non-trivial sense) about the Holocaust, surely it is the imperious moral urgency that compels those who contemplate it to revise their view of what it means to be human, and to bear witness to such an event.

Author : Courtney S. Campbell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532662737

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Bearing Witness by Courtney S. Campbell Pdf

In Bearing Witness, Courtney S. Campbell draws on his experience as a teacher, scholar, and a bioethics consultant to propose an innovative interpretation of the significance of religious values and traditions for bioethics and health care. The book offers a distinctive exposition of a covenantal ethic of gift–response–responsibility–transformation that informs a quest for meaning in the profound choices that patients, families, and professionals face in creating, sustaining, and ending life. Campbell’s account of “bearing witness” offers new understandings of formative ethical concepts, situates medicine as a calling and vocation rooted in concepts of healing, affirms professional commitments of presence for suffering and dying persons, and presents a prophetic critique of medical-assisted death. This book offers compelling critiques of secular models of medical professionalism and of individualistic assumptions that distort the physician-patient relationship. This innovative interpretation bears witness to the relevance of religious perspectives on an array of bioethical issues from new reproductive technologies to genetics to debates over end-of-life ethics and bears witness against the oddities of a market-oriented and consumerist vision of health care that is especially salient for an era of health-care reform.

Author : David W. Torrance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781610976664

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The Witness of the Jews to God by David W. Torrance Pdf

This book while presenting the contribution of a variety of scholars also presents important statements of Churches today on the Jewish people and her place in God's purpose for the world. It also gives statistics of Jewish communities.

Author : Hannah Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-09
Category : French drama
ISBN : 9780192863263

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Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness by Hannah Simpson Pdf

Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness explores Beckett's representation of physical pain in his theatre plays in the long aftermath of World War II, emphasising how the issues raised by this staging of pain speak directly to matters lying at the heart of his work: the affective power of the human body; the doubtful capacity of language as a means of communication; the aesthetic and ethical functioning of the theatre medium; and the vexed question of intersubjective empathy. Alongside the wartime and post-war plays of fellow Francophone writers Albert Camus, Eugène Ionesco, Pablo Picasso, and Marguerite Duras, this study resituates Beckett's early plays in a new conceptualising of le théâtre du témoin or a 'theatre of the witness'. These are plays concerned with the epistemological and ethical uncertainties of witnessing another's pain, rather than with the sufferer's own direct experience. They raise troubling questions about our capacity to comprehend and respond to another being's pain. Drawing on an interdisciplinary framework of extant criticism, recorded historical audience response, theatre and affect theory, and medical understandings of bodily pain, Hannah Simpson argues that these plays do not offer any easily negotiable encounter with physical suffering, pushing us to recognise the very 'otherness' of another being's pain, even as it invades our own affective sphere. In place of any comforting transcendence or redemption of endured pain, they offer a starkly sceptical, even pessimistic probing of what it is to witness another's suffering.

Author : Carolyn J. Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501735080

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The Moral Witness by Carolyn J. Dean Pdf

The Moral Witness is the first cultural history of the "witness to genocide" in the West. Carolyn J. Dean shows how the witness became a protagonist of twentieth-century moral culture by tracing the emergence of this figure in courtroom battles from the 1920s to the 1960s—covering the Armenian genocide, the Ukrainian pogroms, the Soviet Gulag, and the trial of Adolf Eichmann. In these trials, witness testimonies differentiated the crime of genocide from war crimes and began to form our understanding of modern political and cultural murder. By the turn of the twentieth century, the "witness to genocide" became a pervasive icon of suffering humanity and a symbol of western moral conscience. Dean sheds new light on the recent global focus on survivors' trauma. Only by placing the moral witness in a longer historical trajectory, she demonstrates, can we understand how the stories we tell about survivor testimony have shaped both our past and contemporary moral culture.

Author : Karen Gonzalez Rice
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472053247

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Long Suffering by Karen Gonzalez Rice Pdf

An unflinching, illuminating look at three U.S. artists and their performances of suffering

Author : Teya Sepinuck
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781849053822

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Theatre of Witness by Teya Sepinuck Pdf

Exploring diverse human experiences in the US, Poland and Northern Ireland, this book is of interest to practitioners and students of applied theatre, peace and conflict studies, professionals working in conflict resolution, counselors, psychotherapists, professionals in the field of criminal and restorative justice, and spiritual seekers.

Author : Richard Quinney
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791491614

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Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice by Richard Quinney Pdf

Featuring both scholarly and autobiographical writings, Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice follows Richard Quinney's development as a criminologist. Quinney's criminology is a critical criminology which he describes as a journey of witnessing to crime and social justice. Quinney's travels from the 1960s through the 1990s show a progression of ways of thinking and acting: from the social constructionist perspective to phenomenology, from phenomenology to Marxist and critical philosophy, from Marxist and critical philosophy to liberation theology, from liberation theology to Buddhism and existentialism. Along this journey, Quinney adopts a more ethnographic and personal mode of thinking and being. Each new stage of development incorporates what has preceded it; each change has been motivated by the need to understand crime and social justice in another or more complex way, in a way excluded from a former understanding. Each stage has also incorporated changes that were taking place in Quinney's personal life. Ultimately, there is no separation between life and theory, between witnessing and writing.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555005235

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The Present testimony, and original Christian witness revived by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kia Lindroos,Frank Möller
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847409731

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Art as a Political Witness by Kia Lindroos,Frank Möller Pdf

The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies.

Author : Manuela Consonni,Philip Galland Nord
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110771466

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Witnessing the Witness of War Crimes, Mass Murder, and Genocide by Manuela Consonni,Philip Galland Nord Pdf

Rethinking the concepts of "witnessing" and "witness" is highly relevant to the study of war crimes, mass murder and genocide. Through multiple readings, the volume shows the meanings and functions of witnessing in a political and historical context marked by the emergence of multiculturalism. The ultimate goal is the exploration of divergent and intersectional positions of the witness and witnessing as both concrete and hermeneutical categories. As a result, the mechanisms of social, political, and psychological oppression, murder and genocide will become tangible and understandable with greater precision and finesse.

Author : Andy Draycott,Jonathan Rowe
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620328910

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Living Witness by Andy Draycott,Jonathan Rowe Pdf

Because God calls his people to be a living witness to him, morality is mission. Conversely, immorality is anti-mission, a failure to give true testimony or witness. This, in essence, is the theme of this stimulating and challenging volume. The whole life of the people of God, not just verbal proclamation, testifies to the church's faith--or lack of faith--in her Lord.The contributors explain that mission and ethics are intricately and necessarily interwoven, and explore why this is so by unpacking the biblical and theological roots of missional ethics, probing its limits and exploring its possibilities through examination of some foundational themes and a selection of specific issues.Intended primarily for pastors and church leaders, this volume encourages reflection and conversation that will feed the life of the body of Christ. Missional ethics concerns all the ways in which Christian ethical practice flows out of, supports, and advances the wider mission of the church to proclaim the gospel.The contributors are Brian Brock, M. Daniel Carroll R., Jonathan Chaplin, Guido de Graaff, Sean Doherty, Andy Draycott, Joshua Hordern, Matt Jenson, Grant Macaskill, Nathan Moser, Jonathan Rowe, Sarah Ruble, and Christopher J. H. Wright.

Author : Steffi de Jong
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785336430

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The Witness as Object by Steffi de Jong Pdf

Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a “museum objectâ€_x009d_ in the form of video interviews with individuals remembering events of historical importance. Such video testimonies now not only are part of the collections and research activities of museums, but become deeply intertwined with narrative and exhibit design. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes for the first time this new global process of “musealisationâ€_x009d_ of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of the transformation of video testimonies into exhibits.

Author : Lamont Walker
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781477258040

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You Are a Witness! by Lamont Walker Pdf

Your handicap does not disqualify you from being an ambassador for Jesus Christ. If you are a Christian who struggles to witness because of your condition, then this inspiring book is a must read! I want you to understand even though you have a disability God has given you a ministry to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ! You are called to proclaim the word of reconciliation through the grace of God on your life. Since you are born-again, God wants to work through you to bring others into His kingdom! The Bible says, Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold all things are become new. And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation. To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and HATH COMMITTED UNTO US THE WORD OF RECONCILIATION 2 Corinthians5:17-18 KJV

Author : Renee Splichal Larson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498226073

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A Witness by Renee Splichal Larson Pdf

The 2010 earthquake in Haiti buried Renee Splichal Larson in concrete rubble, killing her husband and leaving her a widow at age 27. Surviving only to be overwhelmed by loss and trauma, she wondered if life was still possible for her. Even as she trained to become a pastor, her faith in a loving God was shaken and battered by the earthquake that devastated Port-au-Prince and took the lives of many thousands. This is Renee's moving story of love, grief, survival, and new life. It is an account of the lives of three young people, their experience of the challenges, beauty, and hospitality of Haiti, and the tumult that overthrew all they held dear. After years of struggle and healing, aided by remarkable signs of the love and presence of God, Renee offers us an intimate look at her young romance, her experience of the earthquake, and the journey that followed. Most of all, she proclaims her hard-won witness: that in Christ, love and life conquer death.