Witnessness Beckett, Dante, Levi and the Foundations of Responsibility [Hardcover]

0.0 Witnessness: The Coordinates

1.0 ness
1.1 witness...
1.2 ...martyr
1.3 toccare al fondo
1.4 error's margin
1.5 vicariousness
1.6 talkativeness
1.7 betweenness
1.8 afterwit
2.0 wit
2.1 now
2.2 remains
2.3 nothingness
2.4 lessness
2.5 fitness
2.6 dimness
2.7 witlessness
3.0 witnessness
3.1 readerliness
3.2 witnesswork in the witnessworks
3.3 imagination
3.4 figment
3.5 telltale
3.6 empathy
3.7 model-wit

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A wise and passionate book, whose fundamental ambition - to develop an effective universal ethics - is compellingly accomplished. The conviction with which Harvey establishes Samuel Beckett's rightful place at the heart of this undertaking is thrillingly persuasive. Harvey's thinking is as committed as it is attentive, his readings full of care and insight. This is an inspiring achievement. Martin Crowley, University Senior Lecturer, Department of French, University of Cambridge, UK

A witty ethics? Who would have thought it possible? Yet this is just what Robert Harvey gives us in his brilliant Witnessness. With Beckett-like bilingual virtuosity, Harvey invents, stage-manages, and animates a philosophical theater in which, not merely spectators but actors as well, we might learn to move beyond the dreary monolingualism that passes for politics--in which we might learn, as Harvey puts it with characteristic wit and ethical force, to be beside ourselves. Joseph Litvak, Professor of English, Tufts University, USA

The last sentinel of witness consciousness, Robert Harvey locates the knocked out ethical transmitters that populate our 'litterature' and continue to signal, if dimly, from the late works of Samuel Beckett as well as those of Dante and Levi.l>