Cultures Of Witnessing

Author : Bradford Vivian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019061109X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commonplace Witnessing written by Bradford Vivian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commonplace Witnessing examines how citizens, politicians, and civic institutions have adopted idioms of witnessing in recent decades to serve a variety of social, political, and moral ends. The book encourages us to continue expanding and diversifying our normative assumptions about which historical subjects bear witness and how they do so. Commonplace Witnessing presupposes that witnessing in modern public culture is a broad and inclusive rhetorical act; that many different types of historical subjects now think and speak of themselves as witnesses; and that the rhetoric of witnessing can be mundane, formulaic, or popular instead of rare and refined. This study builds upon previous literary, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and theological studies of its subject matter in order to analyze witnessing, instead, as a commonplace form of communication and as a prevalent mode of influence regarding the putative realities and lessons of historical injustice or tragedy. It thus weighs both the uses and disadvantages of witnessing as an ordinary feature of modern public life.

Author : Rachel Feldhay Brenner
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810129752
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Witnessing written by Rachel Feldhay Brenner and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2015 USC Book Award in Literary and Cultural Studies, for outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eastern Europe or Eurasia in the fields of literary and cultural studies The Ethics of Witnessing investigates the reactions of five important Polish diaristswriters—Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz, Maria Dabrowska, Aurelia Wylezynska, Zofia Nalkowska, and Stanislaw Rembek—during the period when the Nazis persecuted and murdered Warsaw’s Jewish population. The responses to the Holocaust of these prominent prewar authors extended from insistence on empathic interaction with victims to resentful detachment from Jewish suffering. Whereas some defied the dehumanization of the Jews and endeavored to maintain intersubjective relationships with the victims they attempted to rescue, others selfdeceptively evaded the Jewish plight. The Ethics of Witnessing examines the extent to which ideologies of humanism and nationalism informed the diarists’ perceptions, proposing that the reality of the Final Solution exposed the limits of both orientations and ultimately destroyed the ethical landscape shaped by the Enlightenment tradition, which promised the equality and fellowship of all human beings.

Author : Emma Lipton
Publisher : Middle Ages
ISBN 13 : 9780812253856
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultures of Witnessing written by Emma Lipton and published by Middle Ages. This book was released on 2022 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cultures of Witnessing, Emma Lipton considers the plays that were performed in the streets of York on the Feast of Corpus Christi from the late fourteenth century until the third quarter of the sixteenth and shows how civic performance and the legal theory and practice of witnessing promoted a shared sense of urban citizenship.

Author : P. Frosh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023023576X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media Witnessing written by P. Frosh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Holocaust to 9/11, modern communications systems have incessantly exposed us to reports of distant and horrifying events, experienced by strangers, and brought to us through media technologies. In this book leading scholars explore key questions concerning the truth status and broader implications of 'media witnessing'.

Author : Frances Guerin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Image and the Witness written by Frances Guerin and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture is a timely interdisciplinary collection of original essays concerning the ethical stakes of the image in our visually-saturated age. It explores the role of the material image in bearing witness to historical events and the visual representation of witnesses to collective trauma. In arguing for the agency of the image, this unique collection debates post-traumatic memory, documentary ethics, embodied vision, and the recycling of images. It discusses works by Chris Marker, Errol Morris, Derek Jarman, Doris Salcedo, Gerhard Richter, and Boris Mikhailov, along with images from popular culture, including websites and home movies.

Author : Charles H. Kraft
Publisher : Orbis Books
ISBN 13 : 1608332403
Total Pages : 677 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anthropology for Christian Witness written by Charles H. Kraft and published by Orbis Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anthropology for Christian Witness serves as a thorough, basic introduction to the study of anthropology that has been designed specifically for those who plan careers in mission or cross-cultural ministry. The work of Charles H. Kraft, author of the classic Christianity in Culture, and widely acknowledged as one of the foremost Evangelical missionary anthropologists, this new work represents the synthesis of a lifetime of teaching and study. Kraft treats the very basics, including theories of culture and society; an assessment of the various anthropological schools; kinship and family structure, and cross-cultural communication."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Charles H. Kraft
Publisher : William Carey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 087808648X
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worldview for Christian Witness written by Charles H. Kraft and published by William Carey Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Worldview for Christian Witness, Charles Kraft invites readers to understand REALITY as God sees it by learning to take seriously the insights of other societies. The diversity of cultures can seem obvious, but to really understand the significance of those surface level differences, one needs to understand the deep level assumptions on which they are based.

Author : Thomas Trezise
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823264041
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witnessing Witnessing written by Thomas Trezise and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust survivors. Questioning the notion that traumatic experience is intrinsically unspeakable and that the Holocaust thus lies in a quasi-sacred realm beyond history, the book asks whether much current theory does not have the effect of silencing the voices of real historical victims. It thereby challenges widely accepted theoretical views about the representation of trauma in general and the Holocaust in particular as set forth by Giorgio Agamben, Cathy Caruth, Berel Lang, and Dori Laub. It also reconsiders, in the work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, reflections on ethics and aesthetics after Auschwitz as these pertain to the reception of testimony. Referring at length to videotaped testimony and to texts by Charlotte Delbo, Primo Levi, and Jorge Semprun, the book aims to make these voices heard. In doing so, it clarifies the problems that anyone receiving testimony may encounter and emphasizes the degree to which listening to survivors depends on listening to ourselves and to one another. Witnessing Witnessing seeks to show how, in the situation of address in which Holocaust survivors call upon us, we discover our own tacit assumptions about the nature of community and the very manner in which we practice it.

Author : George R. Hunsberger
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802843692
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bearing the Witness of the Spirit written by George R. Hunsberger and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the theological implications of today's multicultural world? What does cultural plurality mean for the life and mission of the church? George Hunsberger finds the answers to these and other questions in the missionary theology of Lesslie Newbigin which he brings into clear view in Bearing the Witness of the Spirit.n

Author : Alan Noble
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830881093
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disruptive Witness written by Alan Noble and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2018 WORLD Magazine Book of the Year - Accessible Theology 2018 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover Award ★ Publishers Weekly starred review We live in a distracted, secular age. These two trends define life in Western society today. We are increasingly addicted to habits—and devices—that distract and "buffer" us from substantive reflection and deep engagement with the world. And we live in what Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls "a secular age"—an age in which all beliefs are equally viable and real transcendence is less and less plausible. Drawing on Taylor's work, Alan Noble describes how these realities shape our thinking and affect our daily lives. Too often Christians have acquiesced to these trends, and the result has been a church that struggles to disrupt the ingrained patterns of people's lives. But the gospel of Jesus is inherently disruptive: like a plow, it breaks up the hardened surface to expose the fertile earth below. In this book Noble lays out individual, ecclesial, and cultural practices that disrupt our society's deep-rooted assumptions and point beyond them to the transcendent grace and beauty of Jesus. Disruptive Witness casts a new vision for the evangelical imagination, calling us away from abstraction and cliché to a more faithful embodiment of the gospel for our day.