An Ethics of Remembering

History, Heterology, and the Nameless Others

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Edith Wyschogrod

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Religion and Postmodernism Series

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What are the ethical responsibilities of the historian in an age of mass murder and hyperreality? Can one be postmodern and still write history? For whom should history be written? Edith Wyschogrod animates such questions through the passionate figure of the "heterological historian." Realizing the philosophical impossibility of ever recovering "what really happened," this historian nevertheless acknowledges a moral imperative to speak for those who have been rendered voiceless, to give countenance to those who have become faceless, and hope to the desolate. Wyschogrod also weighs the impact of modern archival methods, such as photographs, film, and the Internet, which bring with them new constraints on the writing of history and which mandate a new vision of community. Drawing on the works of continental philosophers, historiographers, cognitive scientists, and filmmakers, Wyschogrod creates a powerful new framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian.

Author Biography:

Edith Wyschogrod is professor of philosophy at Queens College of the City University of New York. Her most recent book is Spirit in Ashes: Hegel, Heidegger, and Man-Made Mass Death.

Release date NZ

May 28th, 1998

Author

Edith Wyschogrod

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

302

Series

Religion and Postmodernism Series

Dimensions

15x23x2

ISBN-13

9780226920450

Product ID

7612351

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