Author : James Hatley
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 22,22 MB
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791447055
Conceptualizes the question of witness and responsibility, following the Holocaust, using continental philosophy, theology, and literary theory.
Author : James D. Hatley
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 24,20 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791491951
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 : Teya Sepinuck
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 22,33 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1849053820
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 : Karen Gonzalez Rice
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 28,67 MB
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472053248
An unflinching, illuminating look at three U.S. artists and their performances of suffering
Author : Diane Langberg
Publisher : New Growth Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 30,68 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1942572034
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 : Carolyn J. Dean
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 150173508X
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 : Fiona C. Ross
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,74 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
New expanded edition of a classic anthropology title that examines ethnicity as a dynamic and shifting aspect of social relations.
Author : Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0375703837
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Author : Pope John Paul II
Publisher :
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Suffering
ISBN : 9780819854582
Published on February 11, 1984, Salvifici Doloris addresses the question of why God allows suffering. This 30th anniversary edition includes the complete text of the letter plus commentary by Myles N. Sheehan, SJ, MD, a priest and physician trained in geriatrics with an expertise in palliative care. Acknowledgments of recent episodes of violence bring the papal document into a modern context. Insightful questions suited for individual or group use, applicable prayers, and ideas for meaningful action invite readers to personally respond to the mystery of suffering.
Author : Alison A. Trites
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 22,74 MB
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521609340
The author argues that the idea of witness is a live metaphor in the New Testament, to be understood in terms of the Old Testament legal assembly, though the Greek lawcourts are also relevant. Professor Trites contends that this idea of witness in relation to Christ and his gospel plays an essential part in the New Testament and in Christian faith and life generally.
