Suffering Witness

Author : James D. Hatley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791491951
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suffering Witness written by James D. Hatley and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Karen Gonzalez Rice
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472053248
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Long Suffering written by Karen Gonzalez Rice and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching, illuminating look at three U.S. artists and their performances of suffering

Author : Teya Sepinuck
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1849053820
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theatre of Witness written by Teya Sepinuck and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Diane Langberg
Publisher : New Growth Press
ISBN 13 : 1942572034
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suffering and the Heart of God written by Diane Langberg and published by New Growth Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's seen slave dungeons in Ghana. Genocide in Rwanda. Systemic sexual abuse in Brazil. Child abuse and domestic violence in the US. After forty years of counseling abuse survivors around the world, Dr. Diane Langberg, a world renowned trauma expert, remains certain that what trauma destroys, Christ can and does restore. This book will convince you, too, of the healing heart of God. But it's not a fast process, instead much patience is required from family, friends, and counselors as they wisely and respectfully help victims unpack their traumatic suffering through talking, tears, and time. And it's not a process that can be separated from the work of God in both a counselor and counselee. Dr. Langberg calls all of those who wish to help sufferers to model Jesus's sacrificial love and care in how they listen, love, and guide. The heart of God is revealed to sufferers as they grow to understand the cross of Christ and how their God came to this earth and experienced such severe suffering that he too is "well-acquainted with grief." The cross of Christ is the lens that transforms and redeems traumatic suffering and its aftermath, not only for the sufferer, but it also transforms those who walk with the suffering. This book will be a great help to anyone who loves, listens to, and seeks to help someone impacted by trauma and abuse. There is no quick fix, but there is the hope for healing through the love of God in Christ.

Author : Fiona C. Ross
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bearing Witness written by Fiona C. Ross and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2003 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations.

Author : Courtney S. Campbell
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532662750
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bearing Witness written by Courtney S. Campbell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Pascual Nieves (ed.)
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039105878
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness to Pain written by Pascual Nieves (ed.) and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the translation of pain into art, the impossibility of finding one's own voice in situations of pain, and the presumed therapeutic power of the artistic representation of pain.

Author : Carolyn J. Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 150173508X
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Witness written by Carolyn J. Dean and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ron Glassman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595128130
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witness to the Pain written by Ron Glassman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children who grow up in homes characterized by parent on parent abuse don’t suffer from domestic abuse, they suffer because of it. I refer to these children as domestic abuse survivors by proxy, a term I coined to describe this specific population. In short, survivors by proxy experience abuse simply by virtue of being in and around abusive environments. Their symptoms mimic those experienced by the primary survivor (the spouse targeted by the abuser) even though they were not the intended target of the abuser. In addition, survivors by proxy experience symptoms specific to their role as a witness to abuse.

Author : Hannah Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019267787X
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness written by Hannah Simpson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.